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Show current user Department
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?
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 _deptYou can then add the measure to a card, or insert it into a textbox like below:
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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
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 _deptYou can then add the measure to a card, or insert it into a textbox like below:
