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chrisread9907
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10 years ago

SUMIF and VLOOKUP within BI

Hi,   I'm new to power Bi and trying to manipulate some data from my SQL database.   This is a screenshot of the data tables im trying to work on:     What i am looking to do is do a SUM...
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chrisread9907
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10 years ago

Thanks very much,

 

I have tried to add both measures but get this messgae:

Have i done something wrong?

 

How do i use a measure with graphical reports? can i just drag it out to create a graph etc?

 

Thanks,

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Greg_Deckler
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10 years ago

Sorry, my bad, you need to add a aggregation function when referencing columns in a measure (SUM, AVERAGE, etc.) Let me review once again what you are trying to accomplish and see if you can achieve that via this method or if we need to go another route. That's what I get for trying to multitask.

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    Greg_Deckler
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    10 years ago

    Let's go a different route, it's a little ugly but should accomplish what you want.

     

    Create a new calculated column:

     

    MyDurationInSeconds = IF([channel] = "1",IF([error] = "False",IF([slaveid] = "1" ,IF([dateEnd] = TODAY(),[DurationInSeconds],0),0),0),0)

    Then, you can create a measure to just sum "MyDurationInSeconds".

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      Greg_Deckler
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      10 years ago

      Also, remember that you could just sum "DurationInSeconds", put it in a card visualization and then add the other IF conditions as filter values or as slicers and do your filtering that way. That's a lot better if you have multiple different kinds of scenarios that you want to get that value for.