Calculation by using values from two different datasets

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

I am new on PowerBI and I started to work on DAX recently. I have a question regarding a formulation in PowerBI.

I have two datasets as below:

Name	Year	Month	Hours
John Doe	2018	August	20
John Doe	2018	September	15

Name	Year	Month	Charge-out rate
John Doe	2018	August	£22.00
John Doe	2018	September	£20.00

What I'm trying to calculate is the monthly revenue of one person, which means that the formula will calculate John Doe's monthly revenue like this:

Name	Year	Month	Revenue
John Doe	2018	August	£440.00
John Doe	2018	September	£400.00

The formula needs to check the "Name", "Year" and "Month" in both datasets and needs the calculate the revenue by multiplying the rate with hours based on the conditions above.

Much appreciated if you could share your thoughts on this.

Thank you and Best regards,

Ugur

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous,

You can create the following columns in your second table.

Column = LOOKUPVALUE(Table2[Hours],Table2[Name],Table3[Name],Table2[Year],Table3[Year],Table2[Month],Table3[Month])

revenue = Table3[Charge-out rate]*Table3[Column]

Regards,
Lydia

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

I am new on PowerBI and I started to work on DAX recently. I have a question regarding a formulation in PowerBI.

I have two datasets as below:

Name	Year	Month	Hours
John Doe	2018	August	20
John Doe	2018	September	15

Name	Year	Month	Charge-out rate
John Doe	2018	August	£22.00
John Doe	2018	September	£20.00

What I'm trying to calculate is the monthly revenue of one person, which means that the formula will calculate John Doe's monthly revenue like this:

Name	Year	Month	Revenue
John Doe	2018	August	£440.00
John Doe	2018	September	£400.00

The formula needs to check the "Name", "Year" and "Month" in both datasets and needs the calculate the revenue by multiplying the rate with hours based on the conditions above.

Much appreciated if you could share your thoughts on this.

Thank you and Best regards,

Ugur

[Greg_Deckler]

See answer in other thread. Please see this post regarding How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490

[Greg_Deckler]

I would create a column in each table that concatenates those three columns. Then you can relate the two tables (not datasets) to one another and then the measure is very simple to create, just SUM([Hours]) * SUM([Revenue]) essentially.