topic Translating the IF statement into DAX in DAX Commands and Tips

Translating the IF statement into DAX

nursyeha001 — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:50:06 GMT

I have an easy-sounding issue, in theory but am trying to translate this into DAX logic.
I'm trying to translate this logic using a nested IF statement where, it reads for every year and will take the latest version of a document. If there's only one submission, "Submission", then it will take this version. Otherwise, if there's an amended submission "Amended Submission", it will take the latest amended document submission for that year, i.e. "Amended Submission". Not all years have "Amended Submission", some years may just have a "Submission".

E.g. IF (Table[YA]=2019, IF(Document="Amended Submission", "Y","N"), IF(Table[YA]=2018, IF (Document="Amended Submission","Y","N")))...

Any help would be great!

Thanks!
Nur

Re: Translating the IF statement into DAX

Nathaniel_C — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 19:31:35 GMT

Hi nursyeha001 ,
Your example does not seem to follow your written example. ATR? is not mentioned in the written portion. I also cannot tell if you have multiple tables and the relationships.

If you would share your pbix, or dummy up some values in Excel both for current and expected data. Please copy and paste them into your post, rather than doing a picture, we may be able to help you.

Please read this post to get your question answered more quickly:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Nathaniel

Re: Translating the IF statement into DAX

nursyeha001 — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 01:39:40 GMT

Hi Nathaniel,

It's all in one table that I'm importing into Power BI and need to transform using DAX to create a column, Valid Record, that for each person, looks at the Assignments submitted for the Year and takes the latest version indicated with Y, any earlier versions will be indicated as a N.

Sample Data:

First Name	Last Name	Year	Assignments	Valid Record
Peter	Parker	2015	Submission	N
Peter	Parker	2015	Amended Submission	Y
Tony	Stark	2017	Submission	Y
Bruce	Wayne	2018	Submission	N
Bruce	Wayne	2018	Amended Submission	Y

Thanks!

Nur

Re: Translating the IF statement into DAX

MartynRamsden — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 19:15:18 GMT

Hi nursyeha001

Try adding a column with the expression below.

Valid Result = VAR RowFirstName = 'Table'[First Name] VAR RowLastName = 'Table'[Last Name] VAR RowYear = 'Table'[Year] VAR NoOfSubmissions = CALCULATE ( COUNTROWS ( FILTER ( ALL ( 'Table' ), 'Table'[First Name] = RowFirstName && 'Table'[Last Name] = RowLastName && 'Table'[Year] = RowYear ) ) ) VAR Result = SWITCH ( TRUE(), NoOfSubmissions > 1 && 'Table'[Assignments] = "Amended Submission", "Y", NoOfSubmissions = 1, "Y", "N" ) RETURN Result

Note: this expression won't work if you have 2 or more people with the same name in the same year.

Best regards,

Martyn

Re: Translating the IF statement into DAX

Nathaniel_C — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 17:18:00 GMT

Hi nursyeha001 , MartynRamsden ,
This also will not work if there are more than a max of two entries per year per person. For instance if you had two "Amended Submissions". So, as MartynRamsden points out if two people have the same name this will not work, my suggestion is that you include in your table a unique identifier (an ID), and that you also have month, day, year to figure out which is the latest submission. Or as an alternative to a full date, you could have the submissions numbered, and we would take the maximum submission per unique ID.

Let me know if you have any questions.

If this solves your issues, please mark it as the solution, so that others can find it easily. Kudos 👍are nice too.
Nathaniel