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pschommer
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9 years ago
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Combined item sales

My situation is something like the following: Clothing seller wants to know what combination of shirts are sold together. One table (SALES) exists to track all sales. I want to be able to select 2 s...
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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    pschommer,

    Create a orderid column in SALES table using the DAX below.

    orderid = CONCATENATE(SALES[CASHIER],CONCATENATE(SALES[CUSTOMER],SALES[ORDERDATE]))

    Then create the OrderID table with the following DAX.


    After that, create a relationship between SALES table and the new OrderID table using the ordered column, and you will get expected result by creating three custom columns(Red, Blue and White) following smoupre's suggestion.

    OrderID Table = DISTINCT(SALES[orderid])

    Regards,
    Lydia

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

pschommer,

Create a orderid column in SALES table using the DAX below.

orderid = CONCATENATE(SALES[CASHIER],CONCATENATE(SALES[CUSTOMER],SALES[ORDERDATE]))

Then create the OrderID table with the following DAX.


After that, create a relationship between SALES table and the new OrderID table using the ordered column, and you will get expected result by creating three custom columns(Red, Blue and White) following smoupre's suggestion.

OrderID Table = DISTINCT(SALES[orderid])

Regards,
Lydia

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pschommer
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9 years ago

Thank you to Anonymous and Greg_Deckler for walking me through this.

 

The New Table definition based on a function that points to a different table is the unexpected learning for me in this exercise. Although I definitely needed every bit of advice to make it all work. Now that I have this simple example working properly, I will see if I can get it to work with my real dataset.

 

Your efforts are appreciated!