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Measure based on Field value

I have two measure Total-1 and Total-2.  I have a field called Stores which have texts like: "Red","Blue","Pink"......

I want to create a Measure in such a way that

 

Total = Total-1 when [Stores] = "Red"

Else Total = Total-2

 

How can I achevie this in DAX ?

 

Thanks!

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parry2k
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@Anonymous  add new measure like this and now put stores and new total measure in a table visual and you will get the expected result.

 

Total = IF( MAX(Table[Stores])="Red", [Total-1], [Total-2])


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westerdaled
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I have a similar issue but not getting passed the syntax

 

I have imported 2 Excel Tables in to my Power BI report

 

 

I want to create a measure based on a the field value in my row .   To keep it simple to start with

 

 

msr.MyAccPrefix = LEFT(Table1[FK_AccountCode],3) 

Well this just gives me a nice red syntax error under my field ..  The field does exist so this maybe not understanding the syntax

 

 

Looks like my bad: as you can't reference a lone field in a measure as Power BI doesn't know the context , you can only SUM,Average etc muliple field values .

parry2k
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@Anonymous  add new measure like this and now put stores and new total measure in a table visual and you will get the expected result.

 

Total = IF( MAX(Table[Stores])="Red", [Total-1], [Total-2])


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