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majdkaid22
Helper V
10 years ago
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Lookup Value two tables

Hi Community,   am trying to find something similar to Vlookup to apply on 2 tables in power bi.   I have one table (meaccount) which has unique  values for every client, and I have table (meacco...
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  • konstantinos's avatar
    konstantinos
    10 years ago

    majdkaid22 kcantor Merge queries is easiest way but probably will return multiple rows ( since  we matching values from many to one ) so then remove duplicates on ID and good to go.

     

    You can try with DAX also in case you have a column in meAccountHistory , like date or transaction ID that defines the latest record. 

     

    Create a calculated column :

     

    BringCountry = LASTNONBLANK(meAccountHistory[IsoCountry];MAX(meAccountHistory[Date]))

or

LASTNONBLANK(meAccountHistory[IsoCountry];MAX(meAccountHistory[TransactionID]))

    This way you avoid returning multiple values. 

     

    Be careful though that it will bring the latest IsoCountry so if an account change country it will show him as the latest country. Of cource if you use filter from meAccount table.

     

    Hope that helps.

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
10 years ago

Create new column:

 

ISOCountryName = lookup('meAccount'[CountryColumn] , 'meAccount'[AccountID] , 'meAccountHistory'[AccountID )

 

I can't seem to find the country in your meAccount table though. If you have it than the above should work

 

Edit: You should also take the summary off from AccountID in your table as you probably won't be doing any sums with ID's :)

Default summarization = Do Not Summarize

  • majdkaid22's avatar
    majdkaid22
    Helper V
    10 years ago

    Anonymous thanks mate

     

    The country is in the (meaccounthistory) table, and I want to have it added to (meaccount) 

     

    How will that work? 

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      10 years ago

      ISOCountryName 2 = lookup('meAccountHistory'[ISOCountryName] , 'meAccountHistory'[AccountID] , 'meAccount'[AccountID )

      • majdkaid22's avatar
        majdkaid22
        Helper V
        10 years ago

         

        My challenge here that hiaccounthistory has mutiple records for the same AccountID.

         

        How can I trigger this?