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I have a simple table of employees that looks like this:
| Employee Number | Name | Manager Number |
| 1 | John | 24 |
| 2 | Alice | 24 |
| 24 | ManagerMan | 56 |
| 56 | CEOGuy | NULL |
What I have is a report that drills through on employee, to show only one employee like this:
| Employee Number | Name | Manager Number |
| 1 | John | 24 |
What I want is to be able to click on this employee, and for it to drill-through to Employee Number 24, to show the manager.
Is this possible?
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Hi @AltGr9 ,
Being a drill trough page you can use a metric similar to the one below:
Manager name = LOOKUPVALUE(Demo[Name], Demo[Employee Number], SELECTEDVALUE(Demo[Manager's Employee ID]))
Please see file attach.
Regards
Miguel Félix
Proud to be a Super User!
Check out my blog: Power BI em PortuguêsHI @AltGr9 ,
When you refer that you want to click the employee are you refering to a single action? Or you did not setup the drill trough in Power BI report?
Regards
Miguel Félix
Proud to be a Super User!
Check out my blog: Power BI em PortuguêsHi Miguel,
No I'm not talking about a single action. I'm talking about a drill through. Yes I've set up the drillthrough. The issue is that the Manager's employee ID is located in a different field to the Employee ID field. So lets say I've already drilled through on John, using the Employee Number field. That will show me the following table:
| Employee Number | Name | Manager Number |
| 1 | John | 24 |
I want to click this row and get to drill through to employee 24. The problem is I can't drill through on the Manager Number field, because the manager doesn't have a manager number of 24. The manager has a Manager Number of 56. Here is the manager's row:
| Employee Number | Name | Manager Number |
| 24 | ManagerMan | 56 |
If I were to drillthrough on the Manager field, it would give me the following, but I want it to show me the Manager, not that manger's team:
| Employee Number | Name | Manager Number |
| 1 | John | 24 |
| 2 | Alice | 24 |
John
Hi @AltGr9 ,
Being a drill trough page you can use a metric similar to the one below:
Manager name = LOOKUPVALUE(Demo[Name], Demo[Employee Number], SELECTEDVALUE(Demo[Manager's Employee ID]))
Please see file attach.
Regards
Miguel Félix
Proud to be a Super User!
Check out my blog: Power BI em PortuguêsCan you please share a mockup data or sample of your PBIX file. You can use a onedrive, google drive, we transfer or similar link to upload your files.
If the information is sensitive please share it trough private message.
Regards
Miguel Félix
Proud to be a Super User!
Check out my blog: Power BI em PortuguêsHi, sure, here is a one drive link to the file:
Let me know if the link doesn't work for you.
John
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