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Anonymous
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4 years ago
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Converting currency

I have a data table that contains a list of transactions.  Each transaction has a date and the cost in local currency.  There is also a column with the currency code.  I then have a look up table tha...
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  • Ashish_Mathur's avatar
    Ashish_Mathur
    4 years ago

    Hi,

    You should be able to use the LOOKUPVALUE() function.  To get more help, share the download link of your PBI file and show the expected result there.

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amitchandak
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4 years ago

Anonymous , You can create table like this in you fact table

 

maxx(filter(Curr, Curr[Curr_code] = fact[Curr_code] && Fact[Date] = curr[Curr_date]) , curr[Rate])

 

you can multiple rate by amount and get the other currency value

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

I can't get that to work.  My data table is called "All_ads". My Currency table is called "USDBase_Bloomberg".  This is the formula i have.

 

Conversion rate = maxx(filter(USDBase_Bloomberg,USDBase_Bloomberg[Currency] = All_ads[Currency_local] && All_ads[Date] =USDBase_Bloomberg[Date]) ,USDBase_Bloomberg[Foreign_to_USD])
 
Where the fields
"USDBase_Bloomberg[Currency]" is a text field that contains a currency code 
"All_ads[Currency_local]" is also a text field that contains the equivalent currency code
"All_ads[Date]" is a date field showing the date of the transaction
"USDBase_Bloomberg[Date]" is also a date field showing the date of the conversion factor
"USDBase_Bloomberg[Foreign_to_USD" is a number field returning the exchange rate
 
The formula does not appear to see the All Ads fields, they are grayed out.
 
I have created a relationship between the date fields in the two tables and the currency / local_currency fields
 
This is my error message.
 
A single value for column 'Currency_local' in table 'All_ads' cannot be determined. This can happen when a measure formula refers to a column that contains many values without specifying an aggregation such as min, max, count, or sum to get a single result.
 
One other complication.  i do have some USD values in my data table but no USD - USD cconversion in the currency table.  I need to add a conversion of 1 for USD.
 
Thanks
 
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    Are you creating a measure? Please try this.

    Conversion rate: = 
MAXX (
    FILTER (
        USDBase_Bloomberg,
        USDBase_Bloomberg[Currency] =MAX( All_ads[Currency_local])
            && MAX(All_ads[Date]) = USDBase_Bloomberg[Date]
    ),
    USDBase_Bloomberg[Foreign_to_USD]
)

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