Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Prepping for a Fabric certification exam? Join us for a live prep session with exam experts to learn how to pass the exam. Register now.

Reply
Dragonfury
Frequent Visitor

Using measure values within a parameter group to reference in an outside measure

I've created a new field parameter based on key measure values:

 

The resulting selectable measures in the parameter look like this:

Measure 1,

Measure 2,

Measure 3

 

Here is the parameter DAX:

 

Measure Parameter = {
    ("Measure 1", NAMEOF('Key Measures'[Measure1]), 0),
    ("Measure 2", NAMEOF('Key Measures'[Measure2]), 1),
    ("Measure 3", NAMEOF('Key Measures'[Measure3]), 2)
}

 

 

Depending on which measure I select from the parameter I want a new measure to select another measure.

 

For example,

If "Measure 1" is selected, give me "Measure 1A",

If "Measure 2" is selected, give me "Measure 2A",

If "Measure 3" is selected, give me "Measure 1A + Measure 2A"

 

I've tried creating a measure with a switch statement like this: 

 

NewMeasure = SWITCH(
                            SELECTEDVALUE('Measure Parameter'[Measure Parameter])
                            ,"Measure 1", [Measure 1A]
                            ,"Measure 2", [Measure 2A]
                            ,"Measure 3", ([Measure 1A] + [Measure 2A])
                    )

 

 

But I get the following error:

Dragonfury_0-1680772047404.png

 

Any idea where I am going wrong?

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION
johnt75
Super User
Super User

You can't use SELECTEDVALUE with the name of the parameter as that column uses the groupby functionality to ensure you have to include the fields column as well.

To determine which parameter was selected you could either use SELECTEDVALUE with the sort order column, or add a new column to the fields parameter table and use SELECTEDVALUE with that.

View solution in original post

1 REPLY 1
johnt75
Super User
Super User

You can't use SELECTEDVALUE with the name of the parameter as that column uses the groupby functionality to ensure you have to include the fields column as well.

To determine which parameter was selected you could either use SELECTEDVALUE with the sort order column, or add a new column to the fields parameter table and use SELECTEDVALUE with that.

Helpful resources

Announcements
May PBI 25 Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - May 2025

Check out the May 2025 Power BI update to learn about new features.

May 2025 Monthly Update

Fabric Community Update - May 2025

Find out what's new and trending in the Fabric community.