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Anonymous
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Take a column data by it's name to calculate

Hello! I need to use measure that returns the column name from one take using selectedvalue, and use this columnname to get the column. Example:
Here is my first table: 

idattribute
1Purchase
1Emotion
1Likability
2Purchase
2Likability
2Emotion

I will use attribute column as a filter, those 3 attributes are the column names of my second table:

idPurchaseLikabilityEmotion  
10.3420.8350.756  
20.4320.6570.235  
30.7540.6540.765  

I need to create a formula, to calculated the average of one specific column based on attribute column from the first table:
so I now use:
var filter_attribute = selectedvalue('1 table'[attribute])
var mean = calculate(average(  '2 table'[*filter_attribute*] ))
What do I need to put filter_attribute(column name) to DAX will consider it as the column named like this? Thanks in advance!

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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous I would highly recommend that you unpivot those three columns in your 2nd table and then this problem becomes trivial. Alternatively you would have to do this:

var filter_attribute = selectedvalue('1 table'[attribute])

var mean = 
  SWITCH(__filter_attribute,
    "Purchase",calculate(average(  '2 table'[Purchase] )),
    "Likeability",calculate(average(  '2 table'[Likeability] )),
    "Emotion",calculate(average(  '2 table'[Emotion] )),
  )


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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous I would highly recommend that you unpivot those three columns in your 2nd table and then this problem becomes trivial. Alternatively you would have to do this:

var filter_attribute = selectedvalue('1 table'[attribute])

var mean = 
  SWITCH(__filter_attribute,
    "Purchase",calculate(average(  '2 table'[Purchase] )),
    "Likeability",calculate(average(  '2 table'[Likeability] )),
    "Emotion",calculate(average(  '2 table'[Emotion] )),
  )


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