Using Path function in employee change table

[DataNinja777]

Hello,

I'd like to use the path function to identify the name of the manager of an employee in the employee table.  It seems that path fuction only works when employee table is used as dimention table (one employee appear only once) and not in employee change table where an employee appears multiple times for the change in departments and roles. Please could you let me know how I can utilize path function in conjunction with the employee change table where employee appear more than once for changes in departments and roles during their tenure?  

[Daniel29195]

@DataNinja777 

pathfunctions in DAX works when you have a child having 1 and only one parent . 

they can't handle child that has mutliple parents

this means : 

child      parent

4                2

3                2

2               1

1              

the above logic will work 

however : 

child      parent

4                2

3                2

3                1 

2                1

1              

wont work .

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[DataNinja777]

Thank you @Daniel29195 for a clear concise explanation.  It is basically like no many-to-many relationship is allowed.   Is this an appropriate analogy?  The thing is, in real life, employees' managers change over time period and I am trying to visualize this fact using Power BI over time dimension.  I am thinking of experimenting by concatenating with change effective date field to correctly link the manager path of employees according to the time dimension.  If you have any other method to achieve this, please let me know.  

Thank you. 

[Daniel29195]

@DataNinja777 

concatenating with effective date is a good idea .