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Anonymous
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Display Text from Column in Measure?

Hi there! 

 

So I'm working on this report that can either select one or multiple options on the name filter to display results. The data include a column of student names and their final grades on each subjects. 

 

So I'd like a header using card visual to display the unique student name, but says "multiple students selected" when more than one students are selected. I created a calculated measure as below: 

 

Measure Header = IF(ISFILTERED(Grade[Student Name]),Grade[Student Name],"Multiple Students Selected")
 
The part in red does not work, if I replace it with "" then it's ok... but I want to show the student selected!! How do I do that? Help!! 
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bfernandez
Resolver II
Resolver II

Try using the SELECTEDVALUE DAX function.

 

It should look something like this:

Measure = SELECTEDVALUE([Student Name], "Multiple students selected.")

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amitchandak
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Try like

 

Measure Header = IF(ISFILTERED(Grade[Student Name]),firstnonblank(Grade[Student Name],blank()),"Multiple Students Selected")

 

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bfernandez
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Resolver II

Try using the SELECTEDVALUE DAX function.

 

It should look something like this:

Measure = SELECTEDVALUE([Student Name], "Multiple students selected.")

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