Help with Lookupvalue

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Hi All,&nbsp;&nbsp;I have a budget table where I have the monthly budget for different product groups and different account types.&nbsp;Similarly, I have a sales table where I have daily sales transactions for the same product groups and account types.&nbsp;I want to bring in my sales transactions into my budget table so I can plot sales vs. budget by month for different product groups and account types.&nbsp;I tried lookupvalue but it gives me the error "A table of multiple values was supplied where a single value was expected".&nbsp;&nbsp;Any help would be great. Ready to share my data and/or pbix file if needed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanks!&nbsp;

mahoneypat · Answer

I looked at your pbix file.&nbsp; I don't have access to the data to modify the queries (as I shouldn't), so can't provide exact M code.&nbsp; But you basically want to add a custom column in the query editor on both of those table with the Concatenation of those four columns.&nbsp; Note that if any are not text data type you'll need to wrap that part in Text.From( ).&nbsp; For example -&nbsp;&nbsp;=Text.From([Year])&amp;Text.From([Month])&amp;[QED]&amp;[Product Group]&nbsp;You can then make a relationship between them (hopefully a 1:many).&nbsp;Two unsolicited suggestions for your data model - it looks like you might be able to append a number of tables (e.g., the DailyBudget tables all appear to have same columns in them).&nbsp; Also, you have a number of bi-directional relationships which may lead to confusion/frustration/errors when writing more advanced DAX expressions.&nbsp; Try to avoid having those.&nbsp; The ironic thing is one has to learn more advanced M/Query techniques to simplify a model to make the DAX easier to write sometimes.&nbsp; Simple Model, Simple DAX.I hope you don't mind the suggestions.&nbsp; I am speaking from the experience of doing the same things (and worse).&nbsp;If this works for you, please mark it as the solution.&nbsp; Kudos are appreciated too.&nbsp; Please let me know if not.Regards,Pat

negi007 · Answer

Anonymous&nbsp; Do you have date table in your dataset? Else you would need to create a date table in your dataset and then you would need to link your budget table and sales transaction table with the date table using date field. This way by selecting a month using date field from date table you would be able to view the budget and actuals at the same time.&nbsp;&nbsp;You can create a date table using below dax syntex. Go to table data view (second icon on the left side) and then click new table and enter below dax syntex&nbsp;date_table = CALENDARAUTO()

anonymous · Answer

Hi&nbsp;negi007&nbsp;,&nbsp;&nbsp;I have a date table and my budget table and sales table are both linked to the date table.&nbsp;&nbsp;It works fine when I want to plot sales vs. budget by month but if i want to drill down into product group and/or account type its doesn't return what I want.&nbsp;&nbsp;Please see screenshot. My budget values are correct but my sales values aren't what I want when I drill down into product group and account type.&nbsp;&nbsp;

negi007 · Answer

AnonymousYou would need to link product id of budget and transaction tables. I would suggest you to have a seperate product table with all product ID and product details. Then you would need to link product ID from product table with product ID in budget and transaction table. This would show you the correct output.

anonymous · Answer

Hi&nbsp;negi007&nbsp;,&nbsp;Unfortunately my budget table doesn't have a product Id.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is what my budget table looks like. I need to link the year, month, account type and product group in my budget table to the year, month, account type and product group in my sales table.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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