Show current user Department

[Sumanth327]

Hi,

I am new to Power Bi. I would like to show the current user Department from Azure or Office 365 on a text box in one of my Power BI report.
Can you please guide me on this?

@Ritaf1983 

[Sumanth327]

Dear @dk_dk , I am able to get the Dept using the contact Object from Active Directory and using the formula you have mentioned. Thank you

[dk_dk · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sumanth327 

You can use USERPRINCIPALNAME() in a DAX measure to get the current user account, and if you have access to a dataset that contains users and departments you can use LOOKUPVALUE() to find the department and display that.

Here is the DAX code for the measure, where the user_dept table contains a column for the user email, and the department:

Current User Department = 

VAR _user = USERPRINCIPALNAME()
VAR _dept = LOOKUPVALUE(user_dept[department],user_dept[user],_user)

RETURN
_dept

You can then add the measure to a card, or insert it into a textbox like below: