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Anonymous
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RELATED function

Hi,

one of my table has Many to Many cardinality, and when I try to use RELATED , the option to select coloumn from that table is not there; this means that RELATED cannot work with Many to Many relations, is that a correct assumption.

Thanks,

Siddharth

 

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az38
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@Anonymous 

yes, related() can not understand what column is relatedin many-to-many relationships

See remarks here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-Us/dax/related-function-dax

 


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v-lili6-msft
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hi  @Anonymous 

RELATED function returns a related value from another table.

For your case, it is a Many to Many cardinality, so you may try RELATEDTABLE Function to create a column as below:

MAXX(RELATEDTABLE('Table'),[Column])

or create a column as below:

CONCATENATEX(RELATEDTABLE('Table'),[Column],",")

 

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Lin

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Anonymous
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@v-lili6-msft 

Thanks, these are 2 very useful DAX formulas.

Rgds,

Siddharth

az38
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@Anonymous 

yes, related() can not understand what column is relatedin many-to-many relationships

See remarks here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-Us/dax/related-function-dax

 


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