DAX to get value from another related table based on date filters

[Anonymous]

Hi, I am a newbie to DAX.

I have 4 tables in PowerBI, say T1, T2, T3, T4 with the following relationship:

T1 (*) ---> (1) T2 (1) ---> (*) T3 (*) ---> (1) T4

where * indicates many,

I need to create a DAX to add a calculated column in T1, to lookup a field from T4 based on filitered dates from T3, get latest if there are multiple matches.

What would the DAX look like?

Following is what I tried but always gives me blanks:

CalculatedField = 
CALCULATE( MAX( T4[FieldName] ), 
    FILTER( T3, 
        T3[StartDate] <= MIN(T1[StartDate]) 
        && (T3[EndDate] > MAX(T1[EndDate]) 
    )
)

[Kerrymr · Accepted solution]

Hi Coder_Andy,

I had similar issues in some of my previous projects.

I found that snowflake schemas make for very complicated in Dax (IMO).

Can you convert this to a star schema?

Kerry

[Anonymous]

I ended up simplifying the data model and converting it to a snowflake schema with 2 levels. 

[Kerrymr]

Hi Coder_andy,

I'm glad to hear you got it worked out. 

Modeling is important and a good model can save a lot of dax time and frustration.

Kerry

[v-frfei-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

RELATED and RELATEDTABLE should be used here. So you can try to update your formula like this.

CalculatedField = 
CALCULATE( MAX( T4[FieldName] ), 
    FILTER(RELATEDTABLE( T3), 
        T3[StartDate] <= MIN(RELATED(T1[StartDate])) 
        && (T3[EndDate] > MAX(RELATED(T1[EndDate])) 
    )
)

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[Anonymous]

v-frfei-msft

That didn't work. It throws an error that MIN can only accept field names. I tried changing it to MINX, but did not work. 

Since I am adding the calculated field on T1, do I still need to specify RELATED for T1? If I do not write RELATEDTABLE for T3, will the filter include all records from T3, ignoring the relationship?

Unfortunately, I cannot share the data as it is confidential.