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jhendrickson
Regular Visitor
8 years ago
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Create a Calculated Column from Different Tables

I am attempting to add a column to a table in the Query Editor, using a column from a related table. I am getting an error "Token literal expected." The relationship between these tables has been set...
  • SuperSayan's avatar
    SuperSayan
    8 years ago
    Sorry that's my bad. I happen to work on a French system and it is using ";" rather than comma ",".

    You need to replace all ";" by the proper separator which should be comma for you.
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v-ljerr-msft
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

Hi jhendrickson,

 

Could you post your real table structures(including the relationships) with just some sample/mock data, and the expected result? So that we can further assist on this issue? It's better that you can just share a sample pbix file. You can upload it to OneDrive or Dropbox and post the link here. Do mask sensitive data before uploading. :smileyhappy:

 

Regards

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    SuperSayan
    Resolver I
    8 years ago

    Hi @jhendrickson

     

    I was able to recover the number of pupil in a new column in your "Sheet1" table if that is what you were looking after.

    However, the dataset seems very complicated for me, especially the management of the dates.
    PowerBI works magic with dates so it would be better to have full dates using PowerBI Date functions rather that several columns with period, month names etc. just a thought.

     

    I created this column with the below DAX function:

    Pupil number = 
var y=RELATED('Year'[Year])
var sc=RELATED(Schools[School])
var pupilnumber=CALCULATE(max('Pupil transposed (2)'[pupils]);'Pupil transposed (2)'[school]=sc;'Pupil transposed (2)'[year ]=y)
return pupilnumber

     

    Is the below what you are looking for?

     

    • jhendrickson's avatar
      jhendrickson
      Regular Visitor
      8 years ago

      Yes, that is what I want, but when I attempted this in my actual data set, I get this error:

       

       

       

      • SuperSayan's avatar
        SuperSayan
        Resolver I
        8 years ago
        Sorry that's my bad. I happen to work on a French system and it is using ";" rather than comma ",".

        You need to replace all ";" by the proper separator which should be comma for you.