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nrowey
Helper I
Helper I

IF statement between two joined tables on multiple values

I have two joined tables, I want to create a new column containing a value from one table based on a colum value in the other.

e.g   based on table COA1 colum name "accounttype" evaluating to a "S" or a "C" , I want the value from table GLDetail column name "postingamount"   to be added to the new column, if evaluation is not "C" or "S" than 0

 

Tried this and a bunch of others but no luck...

Gross1 = if(COA1[ACCOUNTTYPE]="C" or "S",SUM(GLDetail[postingamount]),0))
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Ashish_Mathur
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Hi,

Share some data to work with and show the expected result.


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Ashish Mathur
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Shaurya
Memorable Member
Memorable Member

Hi @nrowey,

 

You can use:

 

Gross = IF('COA1'[AccountType] = "C" || 'COA1'[AccountType] = "S",
LOOKUPVALUE('GLDetail'[PostingAmount], 'GLDetail'[JoinColumn], 'COA1'[JoinColumn]), 0)

 

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Statement I entered and error result below.
thance for any guidence 
Gross = IF('COA1'[AccountType] = "C" || 'COA1'[AccountType] = "S",
LOOKUPVALUE('GLDetail'[PostingAmount], 'GLDetail'[Match], 'COA1'[HOSTITEMID]), 0)
error:
A single value for column 'HOSTITEMID' in table 'COA1' cannot be determined. This can happen when a measure formula refers to a column that contains many values without specifying an aggregation such as min, max, count, or sum to get a single result
 

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