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Anonymous
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Conditional select of unichar up and down arrows is not working

Hi all, 

 

I have to display unichar up and down arrows based on a measure. 

My DAX is as follws 

percentagedifference = IF([YTD difference]>=0, UNICHAR(9650), UNICHAR(9660))
Why is my output wrong.? 
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AkhilAshok
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Solution Sage

Looks like you have created percentagedifference as a Calculated Column instead of a Measure. Change it to a measure and it should work fine.

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AkhilAshok
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Looks like you have created percentagedifference as a Calculated Column instead of a Measure. Change it to a measure and it should work fine.

Anonymous
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@AkhilAshok 

 

Thanks a lot mate. I cant believe i have made such an unnoticed silly mistake.

I was under an impression i made a measure.

 

 

parry2k
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@Anonymous are you adding perecentagedifference as column or measure? It has to be a measure.



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Anonymous
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Hi, 

 

Its a measure.

YTD difference used in percentagedifference is a measure too which is built up on two other measures.

thisyearYTD sales and lastYearYTD sales. 

 

Regards,

Anusha.

@Anonymous weird, can you share pbix file with sample data, remove any sensitive information before sharing. 



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Anonymous
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@parry2k 

Here is the link to the file. Kindly let me know if you are unable to access.

https://hotnz-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/anusha_hot_co_nz/EZQsu4WrHsxMiEsCI2sORg8B_qKOv4Qe_11R...

 

 

@Anonymous not able to download, it says to login with an account.



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