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Evogelpohl
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Measure to Display Column Names Used as Filters

I have a simple model with 3 tables, Sales, Product, Calendar.  

 

Sales has Cols: ProductID, Amount, TransDate & Measure = [Total Sales]

Product has Cols: ProductID, Name

Calendar has Cols: Date, Year/Mo, Year/Qtr, MonthName (etc...)

 

I want to build a measure that returns the column names selected in a table visual as chosen by the user.

 

For example, if a user of this dataset builds a 3 column table by dragging out: 

Calendar[Year/Mo] | Product[Name] | [Total Sales] 

 

I'd like a measure called [You've Chosen:].  That measure, if dragged out as the 4th column in the table, would return the following text for each row in the resulting table.

"Calendar[Year/Mo], Product[Name]"

 

In other words, I'd like a dynamic measure of all the Table.ColName used to filter the table in which the measure is deployed.  I understand I could write a long measure with all the column names w/ IF (ISFILTERED(col), then (col), but I'd like to do it dynamically.

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

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jdbuchanan71
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I don't think there is a way @Evogelpohl , even using ISFILTERED.  Unless the user selects a row in the table or there are slicers on the columns then the fields are not filtered.

No row selectedNo row selectedWith row selectedWith row selected

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jdbuchanan71
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I don't think there is a way @Evogelpohl , even using ISFILTERED.  Unless the user selects a row in the table or there are slicers on the columns then the fields are not filtered.

No row selectedNo row selectedWith row selectedWith row selected

Right, I meant to say if a specific value was chosen, then it would switch the ISFILTERED, HASONEVALUE functs to evaluate to true.  Thanks, @jdbuchanan71 .

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