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zenisekd
Super User
Super User

FORMAT function trouble

Hi, I have a situation, where 
I have a simple relation between product and sales order line.

zenisekd_0-1702043203286.png


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.: 

zenisekd_2-1702043503363.png

Now, when I want to see this value formated in company currency I tried to use this dax function:

Order Value =
 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])
      )



This is what I get: the product, linked form product table multiplies for some reason (cartesian merge)...

zenisekd_3-1702043540850.png

 

After some testing I found out that it is caused by the FORMAT function. Whenever I add FORMAT in any form even using just (

"currency") and there is product column included in the table, it does this. 

Could anyone tell me, why is it happening?
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zenisekd
Super User
Super User

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/

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zenisekd
Super User
Super User

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/

Ahmedx
Super User
Super User

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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