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SUM Column in Value Exists in Another Table

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:05:36 GMT

I have two datasets

Dataset 1

ID	Hours	Job Type
1	10	Erect
2	10	Dismantle

Dataset 2

ID	Estimate Erect Hours	Estimate Dismantle Hours
1	15	5
2	10	0

I want to create a measure that can do the following:

SUM column 'Hours' in dataset 1. But only if the hours relating to that ID and 'Job Type' are greater than 0 in dataset 2.

For example, dataset 1 shows 'ID' 1 has 10 'Hours' for a 'Job Type' Erect. Dataset 2 has 15 'Estimate Erect Hours' which is matching to the existing 'Job Type' shown in dataset 1 and is greater than 0 therefore 'Hours' in dataset 1 will be summed.

Many thanks,

Re: SUM Column in Value Exists in Another Table

Jacekk111 — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:20:22 GMT

Hi, You can easly make it by creation of properly bounding beetwen database 1 and database2 and in graph set a sum and graph filter making assumption based on database2

Re: SUM Column in Value Exists in Another Table

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:45:43 GMT

Thanks for your response. I am abit confused on how to achieve this.

I have tried

creating a visual that sums hours in dataset 1
Creating a relationship between ID in both datasets
Filtering out the visual if 'Estimate Erect Hours' or 'Estimate Dismantle Hours' are greater than 0

This is not working as it doesnt look to see if the 'ID' in dataset 1 relates to a 'Job Type' erect or dismantle.

Re: SUM Column in Value Exists in Another Table

v-yueyunzh-msft — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:43:29 GMT

Hi , Anonymous

According to your description, you want to get the sum of [Hours] according to the another table the job type hour > 0.

Here are the steps you can refer to :
(1)My test data is the same as yours.

(2)We can create a measure like this:

Measure = var _t =ADDCOLUMNS( ALLSELECTED('Table 1') , "flag" , var _id = [ID] var _job=[Job Type] var _t = FILTER('Table 2' ,'Table 2'[ID] = _id) return IF( OR( _job = "Erect" && MAXX(_t, [Estimate Erect Hours])>0 ,_job = "Dismantle" && MAXX(_t, [Estimate Dismantle Hours])>0 ) , 1, 0)) return SUMX(_t ,IF([flag]=1,[Hours],0))

(3)Then we can get the total:

Thank you for your time and sharing, and thank you for your support and understanding of PowerBI!

Best Regards,

Aniya Zhang

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Re: SUM Column in Value Exists in Another Table

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:12:25 GMT

Thank you very much for taking the time to solve the problem!

You are a life saver 🙂