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Hi , i'm currently using lookupvalue on some calculated columns and i can't seem to understand as to why the circular dependency is happening. Screenshots:
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thank you
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See if this video from the gurus at SQLBI helps:
Avoiding circular dependency errors in DAX
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Hi @PaulDBrown. The video was very clear and I was able to understand why it was happening. That calculated column and the lookupvalue had all the columns from the table BALANCETES depending on it, which means when calculating CVEE-FC it was including the CSEP column.
All i had to do was adding CALCULATE and ALLEXPECT to reduce the columns to what i wanted.
Printscreen:
Thank you so much, this was bothering me for a long time.
@Gonqq Is Regras[CVEE- FC] a calculated column?
Hi @Greg_Deckler . Regras[CVEE- FC] is a column from the Table Regras which i import from excel.
Screenshot of a part of table Regras:
See if this video from the gurus at SQLBI helps:
Avoiding circular dependency errors in DAX
Proud to be a Super User!
Paul on Linkedin.
Hi @PaulDBrown. The video was very clear and I was able to understand why it was happening. That calculated column and the lookupvalue had all the columns from the table BALANCETES depending on it, which means when calculating CVEE-FC it was including the CSEP column.
All i had to do was adding CALCULATE and ALLEXPECT to reduce the columns to what i wanted.
Printscreen:
Thank you so much, this was bothering me for a long time.
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