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Hi, I have a situation, where
I have a simple relation between product and sales order line.
SO line contains subtotal value by order currency(currency sold to customer) and company currency (value in currency of selected company). There are multiple companies with different currencies.
When I display Order code, product and value I get this table, which is fine.:
Now, when I want to see this value formated in company currency I tried to use this dax function:
This is what I get: the product, linked form product table multiplies for some reason (cartesian merge)...
After some testing I found out that it is caused by the FORMAT function. Whenever I add FORMAT in any form even using just (
Solved! Go to Solution.
I managed to fix this with dynamic formatting. Genius tool I forgot about.
https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/introducing-dynamic-format-strings-for-dax-measures/
I managed to fix this with dynamic formatting. Genius tool I forgot about.
https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/introducing-dynamic-format-strings-for-dax-measures/
did you try this
format (
calculate (
sum ( sale_order_line[Subtotal by Company Currency] ),
sale_order_line,sale_order_line[state] IN {"draft", "sent"}
)
, "# ##0.0 ") & SELECTEDVALUE(sale_order_line[company_currency_symbol])
I did not, because it converts the value to text, which makes it useless for further calculations.
Also, it keeps multiplying the rows.
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