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Anonymous
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4 years ago
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Filter one table by another one table

Hi,
I'm new here, Could you please help me? I have problem with filtering data, I have two tables,
In 1st there is document name and document catergory
in 2nd is document name and amount to count.

Relationship is many to many, single 2nd table filters 1st

any other doesn't work

 

I would like to get amount splitted by months filtered by category.

Without any problem I get amount splitted by months, by I can't filter it by catategory. I tried to change relationship and directrion but nothing work


Any help will be appreciated 

Thank you

 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Hi,

    I checked data source and it's turned out  document name in both spreasheets has different naming scheme, short and long, so for Power Bi there were completely different documents. My mistake, I missed it during initial data checking and I focused just on Power Bi. It was reason why filter didn't work

    I think problem will be solved after change all names to one scheme

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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    Community Champion

    Anonymous Perhaps the easiest solution would be to use a Merge step to join your two queries into a single table?

     

    Do you have a date table? Would really need to understand your data better. Sorry, having trouble following, can you post sample data as text and expected output?
    Not really enough information to go on, please first check if your issue is a common issue listed here: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Before-You-Post-Read-This/ba-p/1116882

    Also, please see this post regarding How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490

    The most important parts are:
    1. Sample data as text, use the table tool in the editing bar
    2. Expected output from sample data
    3. Explanation in words of how to get from 1. to 2.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable

      Hi Greg.

       

      My appologies,

       

      I would like to have actice bar chart of amount of documents splited by months (completet workflow send)

      Bar chart filtered by slicer 'discipline' from 'Janunary 2022' table.

      I created easily bar chart with amount of documents by month, all values are in one table

      I can't figure out how create relantionship between tables to add slicer to filter results in bar chart

      by discipline.

      Only one column exist in both tables - DURF Number.

      I hope it's more clear now

       

      Thank you in advance

       

       

       

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    Hi,

    I checked data source and it's turned out  document name in both spreasheets has different naming scheme, short and long, so for Power Bi there were completely different documents. My mistake, I missed it during initial data checking and I focused just on Power Bi. It was reason why filter didn't work

    I think problem will be solved after change all names to one scheme

    • v-jingzhang's avatar
      v-jingzhang
      Community Support

      Hi Anonymous

       

      As you want to filter amount by category, you should modify the relationship to single 1st table filters 2nd table. And after changing all names to one scheme, if it's possible to make the document names in 1st table unique, you can modify the relationship to 1 to many. This would be better. 

       

      Best Regards,
      Community Support Team _ Jing
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