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ckodadek
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10 years ago
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Dynamic TextBox

Hi, I would like to be able to show a single cell's text inside of a text box. Example: Insert text box, then the field in the textbox would take in my column, and filter out all blank values (le...
  • wonga's avatar
    wonga
    10 years ago

    ckodadek

     

    In reference to your original post, you wanted to use FIRSTNONBLANK right? If there will only be one value in a column at any time, then you can probably just use the DAX measure:

     

    Title = FIRSTNONBLANK('Table1'[Column_1],'Table1'[Column_1]).

     

    I used that with sample data where there was only one column with one value in a cell out of 15 cells. I was able to get the value in that cell into a card visual. Let me know if that's what you wanted, thanks.

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sornavoor
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10 years ago

1)  define a DAX text measure

2 ) Use a Card Visual displaying the text dax meaure created in nstep 1

 

Please  see Will thompson's  MS Data Summit Video  in Youtube for example.Create Impactful Reports With Power BI Desktop

around  28th minute mark onwards.

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    ckodadek
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    10 years ago

    If I just want to have a single cell as the title, how would I set that up?
    "Title = FIRSTNONBLANK('sheetName'[columnName], "")" ?

    I tried that but it outputs a number.
    Basically, the column is completely empty with the exception of the cell that needs to be the title.

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      wonga
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      10 years ago

      ckodadek

       

      Can you provide some sample data and the expected result to provide some more clarity?

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        ckodadek
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        10 years ago

        wonga Sample Data: Table 'mySheet' contains Column "1Name" that has a string called "Title" in Row #1.
        I want the word "Title" to appear in a text box.

        The word "Title" is being extracted from a list of strings. So at one time it is "Title", the next time it is "Title B" the next time it is "Title C"...etc. and 'mySheet[1Name]Row#1 updates in the excel sheet.

        All I need is something that will reference 'mySheet'[1Name]Row#1 from my data set (which is already loaded in) and set the string equal to whatever appears in 'mySheet'[1Name]Row#1.

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    ckodadek
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    10 years ago

    sornavoor wonga I want to reference a precise cell. Example: 'table'[column][row]
    If there is an easy way to do this is DAX, please let me know.


    Using ALLNOBLANKROW when my column only has 1 non-blank cell, I'd expect the nonblank cell to be the value represented in the card.

    I've tried "Measure = ALLNOBLANKROW('table'[column])" but this does not yield proper results. It throws an error: 

    Error Message:

    MdxScript(Model) (1, 43) Calculation error in measure 'electricCommander'[Title]: A table of multiple values was supplied where a single value was expected.

    Stack Trace:

     

    Invocation Stack Trace:

     

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