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saralsaral
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Find Parent of Parent with DAX

I have simple task, I need to obtain the 'Grandparent' of an item. The Parent ID is already a column in the data, just need the Granparent ID. I tried LOOKUPVALUE, but I don't know what the 3rd argument will be?

 

 

Parent_of_Parent_ID = LOOKUPVALUE('Table'[Parent ID], 'Table'[ID], )

 

 

 

 

Name           IDParent ID                       Expected_Output (Parent of Parent)
foo101215
bar121518
baz1518 
buzz18  
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Samarth_18
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Hi @saralsaral ,

You can try below code:-

 

Parent of Parent =
VAR _path =
    PATH ( 'Parent_hirarchy'[ID], Parent_hirarchy[Parent ID] )
RETURN
    PATHITEMREVERSE ( _path, 3 )

 

Output:-

image.png

 

Thanks

Samarth

Best Regards,
Samarth

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Samarth_18
Community Champion
Community Champion

Hi @saralsaral ,

You can try below code:-

 

Parent of Parent =
VAR _path =
    PATH ( 'Parent_hirarchy'[ID], Parent_hirarchy[Parent ID] )
RETURN
    PATHITEMREVERSE ( _path, 3 )

 

Output:-

image.png

 

Thanks

Samarth

Best Regards,
Samarth

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Tanushree_Kapse
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Hi @saralsaral ,

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/understanding-functions-for-parent-child-hierarchies-in-dax

 

Please refer above link.

 

 

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Thanks.

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