topic Re: PBI Report Builder - Multi-value parameter with DAX query in Report Server

PBI Report Builder - Multi-value parameter with DAX query

JojoPBI — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:34:25 GMT

Hello,

I'm currently trying to create a Power BI report, where the datasource is a Power BI Dashboard.
I want to have a multi-value parameter to filter on a specific field of my report.

Here is what I have done:

- Created a report level multi-value parameter

- Associated the report parameter with a query parameter within my dataset

- Declared a parameter within query designed

And then I'm using the following code:

EVALUATE SUMMARIZECOLUMNS('mytable'[col1], 'mytable'[col2], TREATAS({@parameter},'mytable'[col1]) )

Issue is, when I'm executing the report, the filter only work if I'm putting a single value in the parameter.

As soon as I put more than one value, I'm getting an empty report.

I have also tried with the following code:

FILTER( KEEPFILTERS(VALUES('mytable'[col1])),'mytable'[col1] IN {@parameter}))

But I'm getting the same behaviour.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Re: PBI Report Builder - Multi-value parameter with DAX query

bradsy — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 20:37:41 GMT

DAX does not natively support multivalue parameters so a workaround was added a few years ago. This article might help. https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2019/11/03/power-bi-report-builder-and-rscustomdaxfilter/

Re: PBI Report Builder - Multi-value parameter with DAX query

JojoPBI — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:40:53 GMT

Thanks for your answer.

I was using this blog https://torchcloudconsulting.medium.com/power-bi-report-builder-parameterizing-dax-queries-59e95a12b654 as a reference to try and create my query but seems like its solution is untested.

I ended up concatenating my multi-value parameter into a single string with pipes when passing it from the report to the query, and use PathContains function, but it's quite an ugly solution.

Would MDX be better to request a Power BI dataset from Report Builder? Seems like it's the only other solution as I'm trying to connect to a Databricks datasource, and this is only supported in Power BI but not Report Builder.