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teshalandry
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Referencing a Specific Cell in Dax

I would like to make a measure that corresponds with a slicer. Ideally, I would select a date in the slicer and have a single corresponding cell value be returned from the specified column. Like an xlookup in excel, but complicated by the slicer being apart of the formula. My current formula:

SelectedDateHour18temp =
LOOKUPVALUE(
    'IBM_15_day_hourly_forecast'[hour18temp],
    'IBM_15_day_hourly_forecast'[Date],
    'Date Slicer'[Date])
gives "a single value cannot be determined" error despite my slicer selecting only a single variable. Is there another way I should go about this?
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v-yueyunzh-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi , @teshalandry 

The reason for this error is that the 'IBM_15_day_hourly_forecast' [Date] field is not unique, and you can use the following measures to achieve your needs:

Column = var _date = 'Date Slicer'[Date] 
var _t =FILTER('IBM_15_day_hourly_forecast', 'IBM_15_day_hourly_forecast'[Date] =_date)
return
MAXX(_t,[hour18temp])

 

Best Regards,

Aniya Zhang

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v-yueyunzh-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi , @teshalandry 

The reason for this error is that the 'IBM_15_day_hourly_forecast' [Date] field is not unique, and you can use the following measures to achieve your needs:

Column = var _date = 'Date Slicer'[Date] 
var _t =FILTER('IBM_15_day_hourly_forecast', 'IBM_15_day_hourly_forecast'[Date] =_date)
return
MAXX(_t,[hour18temp])

 

Best Regards,

Aniya Zhang

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly

Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

@teshalandry Try using MAXX(FILTER(...),...) Tends to avoid that error in LOOKUPVALUE.



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