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Looking up value in another table

I have one table (Fund Characteristics) that contains characteristics of mutual funds

Ticker    Company     Asset class     ...

 

I have another table (Fund Assets) that contains the assets in each fund

Ticker    Date     Assets

 

They are linked 1:* on Ticker.

 

I have a third table (Invested assets) that contain how much an investor has invested in each fund

Client     Date   Ticker     Amt Invested

 

This file is also linked 1:* with Fund Charasteristics on Ticker.  And so far life is happy.

 

We can classify a fund as Small, Medium, or Large.  I want to see if investors have a preference for a particular fund size.  Ideally, Fund Size should be in the charasterics table.  But Fund size varies by time, so I have to have it Fund Assets table.  I added two calculated columns to Funds Assets table:  FundSize and TickerDate = concatenate(Ticker,Date).

 

I then create TickerDate in Invested Assets table and linked to Fund Assets.  this relationship isn't active as the tables are still linked using Ticker.  I want a table with

 

Rows: Client, Date  (from Invested assets table)

Columns:  Fund Size (from Fund Assets table)

Value: Amt Invested (from Invested assets table)

 

But this gives me an error b/c BI can't determine the relationship between two or more fields.   

 

Many thanks!

 

 

 

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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Not very sure with the cause of the issue based on your description. It's better that you can show us a sample pbix file with the issur reproduced. Then we can help you well. And here is a similiar post you can refer to https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Relationships-error-Cartesian-product/td-p/1274653

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

Best Regards,

Dedmon Dai

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