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Hi all. I'm trying my best to describe the issue I have...
I need to create a virtual table which includes one column that shows the selection from a slicer
Slicer:
I have a slicer to select Business Unit. I also have a measure which gives me the selected item from the slicer with SELECTEDVALUE
physical Table:
I have a table with data from different Business Units
virtual table:
I have a virtual table which is based on the physical table from above but I add a couple of columns with ADDCOLUMNS. So far all good.
Since I need the virtual table to be filtered to only the Business unit which is selected in the slicer, I was trying to add the result of the SELECTEDVALUE measure from above to a new column but this doesn't work. It stays blank. The formulare for the virtual table looks like this:
I'm looking for a way to replace the hardcoded "Business Unit XY" wich what is selected in the slicer
HL Virtual =
VAR newTable =
ADDCOLUMNS(HL_Template;
"RATETYPE";
LOOKUPVALUE('Data'[RATETYPE];'Data'[MG_ACCOUNT ID];HL_Template[MG_ACCOUNT]);
"Selected Unit";
"Business Unit XY")
VAR filteredtable =
SELECTCOLUMNS(newTable;
"MG_ACCOUNT";HL_Template[MG_ACCOUNT];"Unit";HL_Template[Unit];"RATETYPE";[RATETYPE];"Selected Unit";[Selected Unit];"Unit = selected Unit";IF(HL_Template[Unit]=[Selected Unit];"YES";"NO"))
RETURN
FILTER(filteredtable;[Unit = selected Unit]="YES")
I'm happy for any hints in the right direction. Thanks guys!
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I had to rethink the whole topic and now successfully created a measure which is doing what I need.
Of course, calculated columns are calculated on refresh so this wasn't actually an option
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Basically I start with 2 tables (linked Excel file might make it even clearer, at least I hope so: Excel File with details )
Table name: | Data | ||
what's in there: | all data | ||
Source: | ERP | ||
RATETYPE | ACCOUNT | Business Unit | Amount |
notrans | acc001 | unit1 | 100 |
notrans | acc002 | unit2 | 200 |
trans | acc003 | unit1 | 300 |
trans | acc004 | unit2 | 400 |
and
Table name: | HL Template |
Wha'ts in there: | template which shows the accounts that should be shown in the report. Note that for unit1 we don't want to see acc002 and therefore haven't listed it in the template. |
Source | Source: manually created Excel file |
Business Unit | Account |
unit1 | acc001 |
unit2 | acc003 |
unit2 | acc004 |
Then I create a 3rd table "Calc Table" using DAX. Basically I take table HL Template and add some columns from the Data table. This works fine. What I also need in the "Calc Table" is a column which shows which Business Unit is currently selected in a slicer which is linked to the Data table. So the red marked part of the DAX needs to be replaced
Calc Table =
VAR newTable =
ADDCOLUMNS(HL_Template;
"RATETYPE";
LOOKUPVALUE('Data'[RATETYPE];'Data'[ACCOUNT];HL_Template[ACCOUNT]);
"Selected Unit";
"Business Unit XY")
VAR filteredtable =
SELECTCOLUMNS(newTable;
"ACCOUNT";HL_Template[ACCOUNT];"Business Unit";HL_Template[Business Unit];"RATETYPE";[RATETYPE];"Selected Unit";[Selected Unit];"Unit = selected Unit";IF(HL_Template[Unit]=[Selected Unit];"YES";"NO"))
RETURN
FILTER(filteredtable;[Unit = selected Unit]="YES")
I had to rethink the whole topic and now successfully created a measure which is doing what I need.
Of course, calculated columns are calculated on refresh so this wasn't actually an option
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