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KimRexh
Regular Visitor

Compare two columns in different tables

Hi, I have two disconnected tables (no relationship) that I want to compare.

I want to have a slicer to choose the week of comparison.

Actual table and Forcast table. I want to have a view like on the right of the picture below. 

Any help is appreciated! 

 

KimRexh_0-1672306657132.png

 

 

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Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

Add a column in each Table with the title of Type.  The entries in this column should be Actual and Budget.  Append the 2 tables.  Select all columns other than the Year columns, right click and select "Unpivot Other Columns".  Create a matrix visual - add manager and Role to rows, Type and Attribute to columns.  Write this measure

measure = sum(Data[Value])

Hope this helps.


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Ashish Mathur
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v-yangliu-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi  @KimRexh ,

 

Here are the steps you can follow:

1. Create calculated table.

Table1 =
SUMMARIZE(
    'Actual',
    'Actual'[Manager],'Actual'[Role],'Actual'[sort])

vyangliumsft_0-1672369451879.png

2. Create measure.

Measure1 =
SUMX(
    FILTER(ALL(Actual),
    'Actual'[sort]=MAX('Table1'[sort])),[1944])
Measure2 =
SUMX(
    FILTER(ALL('Forecast'),
    'Forecast'[sort]=MAX('Table1'[sort])),[1944])
Flag =
IF(
    [Measure1]<>[Measure2],1,0)

Result:

vyangliumsft_1-1672369451881.png

3. Create slicers with column headers.

Right-click Copy Actual Table in Power Query to form a new Copy:

vyangliumsft_2-1672369451881.png

Select all columns of Copy Table – Transform – Unpivot columns.

vyangliumsft_3-1672369451886.png

Click [Vlaue] – Remove Columns.

vyangliumsft_4-1672369451888.png

Select [Attribute] – Right-click – Remove Duplicates.

vyangliumsft_5-1672369451888.png

 

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

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Thank you for your solution. So doing it this way I set the 1944 column static right?
What I would like, and I could have made it more clear in the desc. is I would like to compare all values (1944 (YYWW) goes from 2019-today) with two slicers.

 

Like this; 

KimRexh_0-1672642880317.png

 

archuleta28
Resolver I
Resolver I

Hi @KimRexh ,

 

You can use "Merge Queries as new" and then add a conditional column like below for comparision:

 

archuleta28_5-1672310412303.png

 

 

After clicking OK, Expand ->

archuleta28_6-1672310455627.png

 

 

 

Select columns -> 

archuleta28_7-1672310504100.png

archuleta28_9-1672310534732.png

 

Now, add a conditional column ->

Comparision = if(Merge1Forecast] = Merge1[Actual], 0, 1)

 

Result:

archuleta28_10-1672310694024.png

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your reply!
When I do this I get a new row for each row when I expand the table with columns from table2. 

 

Also, I have tried creating field parameters for the columns so that I can create a slicer for the columns but is there a alternative way of creating slicer with column header? 

 

@KimRexh , a better way is to create common dimensions and use those

https://amitchandak.medium.com/power-bi-when-i-asked-you-to-create-common-tables-a-quick-dax-solutio...

Power BI- DAX: When I asked you to create common tables: https://youtu.be/a2CrqCA9geM

Power BI- Power Query: When I asked you to create common tables: https://youtu.be/PqfGW6pl1Sw

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