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6 years ago

Parent-Child Hierarchy Filtering Conditions

Hi, I am very new in Power BI and have following issue to find the right formula combination in Power BI. Is this possible in Power BI and if yes how can I realize thi? Thanks in Advance 🙂   ...
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6 years ago

Hi Allison, thanks for your quick reply!

Point 1 (linking that to the Child table using ID to ParentID) is done.

Point 2 (would typically need to do this as an OR) I need here here also an AND condition to filter exatly for the right items - otherwise it would show me also the wrong parent items.

 

Can you show me an example of the formula for point 2 please?

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AllisonKennedy
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6 years ago

Try something like this, as a MEASURE:

 

DoneApples = IF(ISBLANK(MAXX(FILTER(Child,Child[Item]= "Apple" && Child[Status] = "Done"),Child[Parent ID])),"A",IF(MAXX(FILTER(Child,Child[Item]= "Apple" && Child[Status] = "Done"),Child[Parent ID])=MAXX(FILTER(Child,Child[Item]= "Pear"&& Child[Status] = "Done"),Child[Parent ID]), "Yes", "No"))
 
Then put it in a table or matrix with the Parent[Name]. 
 
It can probably be made a bit more elegant if you have the time, but let me know if that doesn't make sense or if it works. 
 

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    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    Hi Allison,

     

    I transferred your suggestion to the real table as below but it says as error "Too many arguments were passed to the FILTER function. The maximum argument count for the function is 2." What does this mean? 

     

    TEST = IF(ISBLANK(MAXX(FILTER('Project Tracker';'Project Tracker'[Title]="Apple" && 'Project Tracker'[State]="Done");'Project Tracker'[Parent Work Item Id]));"A";IF(MAXX(FILTER('Project Tracker';'Project Tracker'[Title]= "Apple" && [State]="Done");[Parent Work Item Id])=MAXX(FILTER('Project Tracker';[Title]= "Pear"&& [State]="To Do";[Parent Work Item Id]); "YES"; "NO")))

     

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      AllisonKennedy
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      6 years ago

      Anonymous  That means you have a syntax error, you need to close the FILTER function with ) 

       

      Try adding the red ) as below and delete the final 😞 

       

      TEST = IF(ISBLANK(MAXX(FILTER('Project Tracker';'Project Tracker'[Title]="Apple" && 'Project Tracker'[State]="Done");'Project Tracker'[Parent Work Item Id]));"A";IF(MAXX(FILTER('Project Tracker';'Project Tracker'[Title]= "Apple" && [State]="Done");[Parent Work Item Id])=MAXX(FILTER('Project Tracker';[Title]= "Pear"&& [State]="To Do");[Parent Work Item Id]); "YES"; "NO"))

       

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        Anonymous
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        6 years ago

        AllisonKennedy The formula works now, thanks!

        But as result it shows in the new "TEST" column in all cells the red "A" from the formula below - do you think we missed here something else?

         

        TEST = IF(ISBLANK(MAXX(FILTER('Project Tracker';'Project Tracker'[Title]="Apple" && 'Project Tracker'[State]="Done");'Project Tracker'[Parent Work Item Id]));"A";IF(MAXX(FILTER('Project Tracker';'Project Tracker'[Title]= "Apple" && [State]="Done");[Parent Work Item Id])=MAXX(FILTER('Project Tracker';[Title]= "Pear"&& [State]="To Do");[Parent Work Item Id]); "YES"; "NO"))