Help with LOOKUPVALUE

[Edirin]

I have 2 tables...

Table 1

Employee ID	Employee Name
E001	Jaimie
E002	Fred
E003	Isaac
E004	Jones
E005	Billy

Table 2

Job ID	Employee ID	Line Manager Job ID	Line Manager Employee ID	Line Manager Name
J001	E001
J002	E002	J001	E001
J003	E003	J002	E002
J004	E004	J002	E002
J005	E005	J003	E003

I was able to populate the Line manager employee ID as follows...

Line Manager Employee ID = LOOKUPVALUE('Table 2'[EmployeeID], 'Table 2'[JobID], 'Job DB'[LineManagerJobID])

Now i'm trying to get the line manager name; but doing this just returns blank values (looking up the lookup value)...

LOOKUPVALUE('Table 1'[Employee Name], Table 1[Employee ID], 'Table 2'[Line Manager Employee ID])

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

@Edirin Hmm, worked perfectly fine for me, see attached PBIX. Perhaps trying to do a Trim and Clean in Power Query for all of your columns to remove trailing whitespaces, etc. See attached PBIX below signature.

[v-yalanwu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Edirin ;

You could try create a column by dax.

Line Manager Name = CALCULATE(MAX('Table1'[Employee Name]),FILTER('Table1',[Employee ID]=EARLIER(Table2[Line Manager Employee ID])))

Or

Column = LOOKUPVALUE('Table1'[Employee Name],Table1[Employee ID],'Table2'[Line Manager Employee ID])

The final show:

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Community Support Team _ Yalan Wu
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[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

@Edirin Hmm, worked perfectly fine for me, see attached PBIX. Perhaps trying to do a Trim and Clean in Power Query for all of your columns to remove trailing whitespaces, etc. See attached PBIX below signature.