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Problem: Summing Values from another Table, only using Mesures.
Hi guys,
I want to change my connections in power bi from import to direct query, for that I need to find a solution to this problem that only envolve mesures and not adding columns to my data.
I have 2 tables in my model
Table 1 - (name: Infoprex - Olivais) - Table that shows product information (ID, Price, margin, etc...)
Table 2 - Table with Sales information, (ID of the product, name, price, Date of the sale, etc...)
Both tables are connected by product ID (one to one connection).
What do I want to do?
I want to sum the margin (Column: "Margem") of all products sold (Table 2).
The problem is the margin ("Margem") column is only available in Table 1.
My "old" solution was to creat a Column in Table 2 and getting the Margin column from Table 1 using the Related Function and then sum it (in red in the image above).
But I want another solution that uses only mesures.
Can someone help me 😄 ?
2 Replies
FarmaVip Perhaps I am missing something. Why is it not just SUM('Table 2'[Margem]) ? That would be the sum of all Margem in Table 2. If you put NOM from table 1 in a visualization along with that measure then as long as there is a relationship between the two you will get the sum of the Margem for each product.
Because "Table 2'[Margem] is a custom column that I create that take the values from Table 1[Margem] using the Related function. I want to do this withou creating any custom column.
I want to use Direct Query to connect my data. That way I can't creat or modify any data inside powerbi (and creat new columns). So I have to use mesures to solve this problem.
