Dax version of excel Match function

[Anonymous]

Good morning

I have 4 columns where I make decisions based on which column has the lowest value. I currently use the Match() function within Excel to do this, however, I am moving into a SQL environment and connecting my new database to PowerBi. How can I replicate the same functionality within Powerbi, in that I can identify which column has the lowest value? The returned value can be the column name or a numerical value.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Allan

[tackytechtom · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

I'd suggest to unpivot the columns first as they suggested here:

Solved: Minimum Value across multiple columns - Microsoft Power BI Community

Here a quick example:

Then you unvpivot all columns that you wish to compare with each other to find the minimum value:

You would end up with something like this:

Lastly, create a measure in DAX like below:

ResultMeasure = 
VAR _minValue =
    CALCULATE ( MIN ( Table[Value] ), Table[Value] <> 0 )
RETURN
CONCATENATEX (
    FILTER ( Table, Table[Value] = _minValue ),
    Table45[Attribute.1],
    ", "
)

And you get the following result:

Let me know if this helps 🙂

/Tom
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[Anonymous]

@tackytechtom 

Thank you so much for the concise answer and it is greatly appreciated. I will build this in and get to work.

Weirdly excited to try this out lol

Cheers