Forum Discussion
Post PatronComparing a field from one table with a field from another table. ie IF(X=Y,"true","false")
Post PatronI'm just starting to build so now much to see .. basically there is a field called Names Saiing Day in the Carrier Info table and a calculated field called 'Weekly FLL ETD ATD' in the Consol Inbound Tabl ... which I need to compare with the Names Sailing Day from the Carrier Ino Table
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XBPsyU1Vt3bZLTALw-1_3jtqLFTjTv1U
Post Patron- kentyler
Solution Sage
OK. I got the file.So. First question. It looks like the CONSOL Inbound describes one or more events happening for a cargo of some kind that is shipped on multiple carriers. What kind of report are you aiming at ? Is there more than one event per row in the CONSOL Inbound table. If so, which fields belong to which events. Or do you consider the whole shipping process to be just one event.Another way to approach this would be to make a mock up of the report you want to end up with in excel, and send me that file.- MarcUrdang
Hi ... yes agreed. I am a seasoned Tableau user. I understand well the points you are making. I don't mean to sound arrogant :) but all I am trying to do is see if the DAY of the Named Sailing Day and the DAY of the Weekday calc is the SAME or DIFFERENT. But can't seem to get this to work. I haven't started to build too much as this premise is key to a lot of my builds.
tx
Marc
- MarcUrdang
I guess all I'm trying to do is compare if the WEEKDAY of the one is the same as the WEEKDAY of the other
=IF(WEEKDAY('Carrier Info'[Named Sailing Day] = WEEKDAY('Consol Inbound'[Weekday LLD ETD ATD],"same","different")
- kentyler
I found 2 things.
One is you have a many to many relationship between the tables. That might be confusing things. I deleted the existing relationship and was able to recreate it as one to many
The other thing I notice is that when i try to include the names sailing day field in a measure it was not available in the intelisense list
so it looks like there is something funny with that column, since it should be available
because i don't have the underlying data i can't see the data type in the query editor but look at this posting which suggests that an inappropriate data type can block the column from being used. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Relationship-with-date-table-not-working/td-p/149052
- MarcUrdang
Hi .. I have attached the underlying data .. and will look at the data type as you suggested. Does the underlying data highlight anything?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1THu5ngP3bWG3tYztjC8QnWNnA1HUOaWR
tx
Marc
- kentyler
I think I've gone as far as I can. The issue on the interface level is that the calculated column does not show up as available for either other calculated columns or measures. I tried calculating a numeric day of the week instead of a string and that didn't help. I don't think I can go farther over email. If you want to invest the time to do a screen share we could have a conversation, but I can't promise any results. At this point I would fall back and try loading a simpler table that had only some identifying fields and the day of the week. Create a relationship to it and see if the day of the week field shows up in the intellisense. If it does, then gradually expand the "simple" version out to be the full table you want to load, checking as you go to see where it "dissappears". Thanks for the responses, it's been interesting.
