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Hi guys,
I am trying to see if employees are sick, on holiday or available at the office.
To do this I created two columns with "Status description" to determine if they are available or not
Column 1:
Column 2:

So, what takes precedence? If one column shows Available and one Away, which is it and what is it for all possible combinations of values?
@Greg_Deckler If they are either sick or on holiday they should be away.
So it should look something like:
Measure x = IF('AbsenceRegistrationTransaction'[StatusDescription] = "Away" ; "Away"; IF('LeaveRegistration'[StatusDescription] = "Away"; "Away"; "Available"))
Really hard to do this one without sample data or more specifics around what you want this to end up like. But, let's say you have a data slicer that you filter down to a specific date. And you have a table visual of employees, you might be able to do a measure like:
Measure =
VAR __EmployeeID = MAX('Employees'[EmployeeID])
VAR __Date = SELECTEDVALUE('Dates'[Date])
VAR __LeaveStatus1 = MAXX(FILTER('LeaveTable1',[EmployeeID] = __EmployeeID && [Date] = __Date),[LeaveStatus1])
VAR __LeaveStatus2 = MAXX(FILTER('LeaveTable2',[EmployeeID] = __EmployeeID && [Date] = __Date),[LeaveStatus2])
RETURN
<Implement your business logic here>
@Greg_DecklerThanks for helping me so far, but if I try your measure it will only return "Away" for one employee, not for the others.
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