topic Re: Lookups in Developer

Lookups

Wecks — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:13:12 GMT

I have a report that has two tables. One of the tables has a column called PCNAME in the other table there is PC spec. I want to do a lookup on the spec column on table 2 where the PCNAME is the same. Can i do a lookup?

Re: Lookups

Wecks — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:35:30 GMT

No Worries I Found the answer. If anyone else is after somethign similar please see below.

LOOKUPVALUE(Result_ColumnName, Search_ColumnName1, Search_Value1)

Here,

Result_ColumnName = Name of the column which you want to show as an end result. In our case, we want to display the name of the Country from Master table.
Search_Column1 = Name of the column from where you want to find your keyword/string. In our case, we want to search the value of State from Master table.
Search_Value1 = Name of the column or value which you want to use as LookUpValue search. In our case, we want to search for the state in Employee Information table.

In short, State from the Employee Information table will look into State from Master table and d

Re: Lookups

v-chuncz-msft — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 04:53:10 GMT

@Wecks,

You may also use Merge Queries (Table.NestedJoin) in Query Editor.

Re: Lookups

Wecks — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:53:12 GMT

I am intrigued on how this would work i dont suppose you have a small simple example i could peruse? Many thanks. Andy

Re: Lookups

v-chuncz-msft — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 10:02:12 GMT

@Wecks,

Take a look at link below.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-shape-and-combine-data#combine-data