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Edirin
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3 years ago
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Help with LOOKUPVALUE

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 I...
  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    3 years ago

    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's avatar
    3 years ago

    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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