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Anonymous
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How to Pull in Value from one table to another to perform a test (Vlookup - like within PBI ?)

I'm not entirely sure if I am wording the subject properly. Essentially, I have one query from a ticketing data that has:
Table 1
TicketDuration   (ie 60 minutes, 45 minutes, 32 minutes, 75 minutes, 10 minutes, 5 minutes, etc etc)
SLAType             (ie 001, 002, 003, 001, 001, 003)

In another table I have
Table 2
SLAType             (ie 001, 002, 003)
SLADuration     (50 minutes, 60 minutes, 10 minutes)

Where Table 2 has the varying types of SLA's a ticket might have (ie Urgent, non urgent, etc)
What I am trying to do within Table1 is be able to tell if each TicketDuration < SLADuration and, if so, value is TRUE (ie SLA Met) otherwise value is FALSE.
I would typically do this, in Excel, by doing a vlookup on Table 1 to pull the SLADuration Value from Table 2 and then create a column that says =IF(TicketDuration < SLADuration, True, False)

I don't know how to reference Table 2 from Table 1 to do this - or if I even have to with there being a relationship between the two that I defined (SLAType) I'd like to create a stacked bar chart that shows total amount of tickets with comprised of those that met SLA and didn't).

I'm a SUPER novice at PBI - pretty comfortable with Excel. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Thank you in advance.

Rob

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Tanushree_Kapse
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

For bringing SLADuration in Table1 , use the following dax for Lookup:
Create a new column in Table1:
SLADuration= LOOKUPVALUE(Table2[SLADuration], Table2[SLAType], Table1[SLAType])

 

After this, you can perform your calculation:
Test=

IF(SELECTEDVALUE('Table (1)'[TicketDuration) <SELECTEDVALUE('Table (1)'[SLADuration]), True, False)
 
 
Mark this as a solution if I anwered your question, kudos are always appreciated.
Thanks

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Tanushree_Kapse
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

For bringing SLADuration in Table1 , use the following dax for Lookup:
Create a new column in Table1:
SLADuration= LOOKUPVALUE(Table2[SLADuration], Table2[SLAType], Table1[SLAType])

 

After this, you can perform your calculation:
Test=

IF(SELECTEDVALUE('Table (1)'[TicketDuration) <SELECTEDVALUE('Table (1)'[SLADuration]), True, False)
 
 
Mark this as a solution if I anwered your question, kudos are always appreciated.
Thanks

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