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Jp_ON
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PathContains from SelectedValue issue with GUID

I have a Table of equipment records that are connected through the Account to Regions.

When I attempt to use the PATHCONTAINS() with SELECTEDVALUE() It always returns False() where if I hard code the GUID it works as expected.

I created a seperate table of Regions to bypass any relationship filtering that may occur.

HeirarchyRegionInPath =
VAR SelectedRegion = "c4be4e26-d198-ec11-b3fe-000d3a09e9da" VS regionselected = SELECTEDVALUE('Region list'[Region])
VAR RelatedRegionPath =
    LOOKUPVALUE(
        ESI_region[HierarchyPath],
        esi_region[Region],
        RELATED(account[esi_territory])
    )
RETURN
IF(
    NOT(ISBLANK(SelectedRegion)) &&
    PATHCONTAINS(RelatedRegionPath, SelectedRegion),
    TRUE(),
    FALSE()
)

I must be missing something, all formats are text, tried Column VS measure and only measure would populate RegionSelected

Tried CONTAINSSTRING() rather then PATHCONTAINS(), same result.

Any help appreciated. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Hi Jp_ON ,

    Thanks for your detailed reply. I updated my sample pbix file, please check if that is what you want. Please update the formula of measure [HeirarchyRegionInPath] as below:

    HeirarchyRegionInPath_New = 
    VAR _Selectedname =
        SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Region list'[Name] )
    VAR _account =
        SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Units'[Account] )
    VAR _terr =
        CALCULATETABLE (
            VALUES ( 'esi_region'[esi_territory] ),
            FILTER (
                'esi_region',
                IFERROR ( SEARCH ( _Selectedname, 'esi_region'[Name], 1, 0 ), 0 ) > 0
            )
        )
    VAR _accounts =
        CALCULATETABLE (
            VALUES ( 'account'[Name] ),
            FILTER ( 'account', 'account'[esi_territory] IN _terr )
        )
    RETURN
        IF ( _account IN _accounts, 1 )

    Best Regards

  • Took a few rounds but this was what we landed on. 

    Have a Table used for Selecting region(Region list) so that the relationships between tables doesn't restrict the avaialble Regions.


    Define 

    HierarchyPath = PATH(Regions[esi_regionid],Regions[Parent Region (esi_region)])


    Then against the Region table this Column is added and we filter the grids based on "RegionInPath is 1"

    RegionInPath =
    VAR SelectedRegion = SELECTEDVALUE('Region list'[Region])
    VAR FilteredTable =
        FILTER(regions, PATHCONTAINS(Regions[HierarchyPath], SelectedRegion))
    RETURN
        IF (
            ISBLANK(SelectedRegion),
            1, -- Show all records if no slicer is selected
            IF (
                ISEMPTY(FilteredTable),
                0, -- Record doesn't match filter
                1  -- Record matches filter
            )
        )

15 Replies

  • Hi Jp_ON - update the IF() logic in the HeirarchyRegionInPath measure

     

    HeirarchyRegionInPath =
    VAR SelectedRegion = SELECTEDVALUE('Region list'[Region], BLANK()) -- Use SELECTEDVALUE()
    VAR RelatedRegionPath =
    LOOKUPVALUE(
    ESI_region[HierarchyPath],
    esi_region[Region],
    RELATED(account[esi_territory])
    )
    RETURN
    IF (
    NOT(ISBLANK(SelectedRegion)) &&
    PATHCONTAINS(RelatedRegionPath, SelectedRegion),
    TRUE(),
    FALSE()
    )

     

    if the above is logic not working, can you revisiting the relationships between the tables to ensure that the lookup functions are pulling the correct data.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    Hi Jp_ON ,

    You can update the formula of measure [HeirarchyRegionInPath] as below, please check if it can return the expected result...

    HeirarchyRegionInPath =
    VAR SelectedRegion =
        SELECTEDVALUE ( 'Region list'[Region] )
    VAR hpath =
        SELECTEDVALUE ( esi_region[HierarchyPath] )
    RETURN
        IF (
            NOT ( ISBLANK ( SelectedRegion ) )
                && IFERROR ( SEARCH ( SelectedRegion, hpath, 1, 0 ), 0 ) > 0,
            TRUE (),
            FALSE ()
        )

     

    If the above one can't help you figure out, please provide some raw data in your table 'account(exclude sensitive data) with Text format and your expected result with backend logic and special examples base on provided raw data. Is there any relationship between the table 'esi_region' and 'account'? If yes, please provide the relationship info(cardinality, direction etc.). It would be helpful to find out the solution. You can refer the following link to share the required info:

    How to provide sample data in the Power BI Forum

    Best Regards

  • Jp_ON's avatar
    Jp_ON
    Frequent Visitor

    Thank you for the response. Greatly appreciated. Unfortunately they did not get me to the outcome I'm after.

    here is some Example "Region List"

    Region list = SELECTCOLUMNS(
        ESI_region,
        "Name", ESI_region[Name],
        "Region", ESI_region[Region]
    )

     

    NameRegion
    Southern Ontario950AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
    Ontario8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
    Northern Ontario850AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
    Central Ontario

    750AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339

     

    And here is the Table of records we're looking to filter by the selected region.

    NameRegionHeirarchyRegionInPathHierarchyPath
    Unit1OntarioFALSE990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
    Unit2OntarioFALSE990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
    Unit3Central OntarioFALSE990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|750AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
    Unit4Central OntarioFALSE990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|750AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
    Unit5Northern OntarioFALSE990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|850AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
    Unit6Northern OntarioFALSE990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|850AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339



    Relationships are as follows.

     

     
     

     

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable

      Hi Jp_ON ,

      Base on your provided data, what's the corrected returned values for the measure [HeirarchyRegionInPath]?


      Name Region
      Southern Ontario 950AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
      Ontario 8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
      Northern Ontario 850AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
      Central Ontario

      750AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339

       

      Name Region HeirarchyRegionInPath HierarchyPath
      Unit1 Ontario FALSE 990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
      Unit2 Ontario FALSE 990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
      Unit3 Central Ontario FALSE 990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|750AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
      Unit4 Central Ontario FALSE 990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|750AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
      Unit5 Northern Ontario FALSE 990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|850AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339
      Unit6 Northern Ontario FALSE 990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|850AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339

      Best Regards

      • Jp_ON's avatar
        Jp_ON
        Frequent Visitor

        the expecation is that if Ontario(8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339) is selected in the Region list because it exists in the HierarchyPath (990AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|C4BE4E26-D198-EC11-B3FE-000D3A09E9DA|710AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339|8B0AA956-C095-EC11-B400-0022486DE339) of all those units, they all would have "HeirarchyRegionInPath"= True. The Formula's presented above are what I'm trying to get to represent these conditions/Hierarchy

  • Jp_ON's avatar
    Jp_ON
    Frequent Visitor

    Took a few rounds but this was what we landed on. 

    Have a Table used for Selecting region(Region list) so that the relationships between tables doesn't restrict the avaialble Regions.


    Define 

    HierarchyPath = PATH(Regions[esi_regionid],Regions[Parent Region (esi_region)])


    Then against the Region table this Column is added and we filter the grids based on "RegionInPath is 1"

    RegionInPath =
    VAR SelectedRegion = SELECTEDVALUE('Region list'[Region])
    VAR FilteredTable =
        FILTER(regions, PATHCONTAINS(Regions[HierarchyPath], SelectedRegion))
    RETURN
        IF (
            ISBLANK(SelectedRegion),
            1, -- Show all records if no slicer is selected
            IF (
                ISEMPTY(FilteredTable),
                0, -- Record doesn't match filter
                1  -- Record matches filter
            )
        )