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4 years ago
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Space-efficient alternative to storing URLs as calculated fields

I have 2 URLs  as  calculated fields in the META TABLE ,that are only needed to display in the report, and no calculation depends on them. Is there not a way to generate them on the fly when needed, as opposed to pre-calculating all of them as calculated fields?

 

URL 1 = CONCATENATE(META[Path],"/ad")

 

FILE --> SAMPLE.pbix 

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  • bcdobbs's avatar
    bcdobbs
    4 years ago

    You could make use of SELECTEDVALUE...

    URL Measure = 

VAR SelectedPath = SELECTEDVALUE ( META[Path] )
VAR SelectedAddition = "ad"

VAR Result =
    IF ( NOT ISBLANK ( SelectedPath ) && NOT ISBLANK ( SelectedAddition), SelectedPath & SelectedAddition, BLANK () )

RETURN Result

     

    Make sure the data category of the measure is set as URL:

     

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  • bcdobbs's avatar
    bcdobbs
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    4 years ago

    You could make use of SELECTEDVALUE...

    URL Measure = 

VAR SelectedPath = SELECTEDVALUE ( META[Path] )
VAR SelectedAddition = "ad"

VAR Result =
    IF ( NOT ISBLANK ( SelectedPath ) && NOT ISBLANK ( SelectedAddition), SelectedPath & SelectedAddition, BLANK () )

RETURN Result

     

    Make sure the data category of the measure is set as URL: