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Add value from a related table to a sum

I have a gauge showing sum of hours from [Project]Hours.   To this sum, however, I'd like to add the value from related [Employee]InitValue but can't figure out how to create that calculation.   ...
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    danextian
    8 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    While you may not be able to use RELATED function on the one side of the many to one relationship, I believe you can do something like 

    MY MEASURE =
SUM ( 'Project'[Hours] ) + SUM ( 'Employee'[InitValue] )
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Anonymous
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8 years ago

I did try that, but the function does not allow me to use relate in a measure field in Projects (either does not exist or doesn't have a relationship to any table in the current context). Projects DOES have a many to one relationship to Employees.

 

But if this had worked, wouldn't that function add the init value to each of the project hour records? I want to sum the project hour records and then add the init value once on top on the sum.

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danextian
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8 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

 

While you may not be able to use RELATED function on the one side of the many to one relationship, I believe you can do something like 

MY MEASURE =
SUM ( 'Project'[Hours] ) + SUM ( 'Employee'[InitValue] )
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    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    You are absolutely right, Dan. I did try that earlier, but with the noobie mistake of not noticing datatype of InitValue had defaulted to text. Worked fine after changing to decimal.

     

    Thanks a lot!

     

    /Wis/