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MiKeZZa
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Manipulating column on USERPRINCIPALNAME()

Hi all,

 

I want to make something like this:

 

TABLE:

Field 1

Field 2

Field 3

 

This table must have a Field 4 which contains Field 1 if the logged in person is in Active Directory Group 'Group A', if he is 'Group B' it must contain Field 2 and otherwise it must contain Field 3.

 

I have a table in my model which contains this:


UPN                                         IsMemberOfGroupA     IsMemberOfGroupB

mailaddress                             1                                    0
.....................

 

I've tried so many things, but I'm not able to fix this. I get problems with using USERPRINCIPALNAME() in row-context, not unique values and so on.... I'm totally clueless.

 

Can somebody tell me with which DAX expression in TABLE I can do this?

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vanessafvg
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have you tried the switch statement?

 

something to the effect off

 

switch(true(),

          and (ismembergroupA = 1, ismembergroupb = 0), "Result",

      and (ismembergroupA = 0, ismembergroupb = 1), "Result",

      "Other Result")

 

 

 





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That gives an error that I've already got and what makes clear that I'm not familiar enough with DAX... It gives:

 

A single value for column 'IsGroupA' in table 'member groups' 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.

can i see your dax code with an example of the data





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We've mailed and Vanessas solution is to combine everything in 1 table. A solution that absolute will work, but not what I'm looking for...

 

I'm afraid I'm looking for something that is not possible....

out of curiosity why does combining the tables not work for you?





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I think it will work, but it's not what I was hoping for. This gives me 2 'facttables', only for something easy (in other languages/tools) as this:

 

if (username IN (list of people that are manager)
{
           FieldA
}
else
{
           FieldB
}

So I'm still hoping to solve it another way, that is also easier to understand for other people at a later moment....

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