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marcos_osorio's avatar
marcos_osorio
Helper II
7 years ago
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Use Slicer value as Variable

Hi, i want to have a table with calculated columns, in one column I set the value to 1 if the value is related with another table. 

This works perfect but its not ver y dynamic. 

So i want to know if there is a way to set for example a Slicer and use that value in the calculated column. 

I mean, to use the slicer selection in the calculated column of the table.

 

 

Thank you very much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Yes, I thought it wasn't possible because PowerBI can't really handle user input data. Even though it has problems, at least it's possible 

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  • Cmcmahan's avatar
    Cmcmahan
    Resident Rockstar

    Yeah, this is possible. I've used it as a janky way to set up input variables on a report before.  The trick is using SELECTEDVALUE to get one value out of a list of values.

     

    You have to explicity declare all the values that the SLICER value can be, but it works.  If you wanted to get a percentage of a value in Table1 with a slicer you could do the following:

    Create a table of values 0-100 called "SlicerValues".  Create a slicer that slices SlicerValues[value].  Create a measure or calculated column in Table1 as appropriate with code like:

    Portion of Data = Table1[Value]*SELECTEDVALUE(SlicerValues[value])/100

    This has limitations, like the slicer only has whatever range you set as available, but gets the job done.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable

      Wow, that's a great way of solving this problem. Didn't know about it! 

       

      As it turns out, I was wrong hahaha

      • Cmcmahan's avatar
        Cmcmahan
        Resident Rockstar

        It's super unreliable, and doesn't work well unless you can enumerate all the values possible for the selection.  PowerBI just isn't generally meant for on the fly dynamic calculations based on a value the report viewer sets.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    As of now, I don't think it's possible. Maybe in a future update. 

     

    But I may be wrong!