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Anonymous
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create dynamic column or table responsing to filter /slicer

Hello,

I am a newbie in Power BI

I am wondering if I could create a dynamic new column or table responsing the filter

for example ,   if I filter by "customer level " ,  then in this new column / table  will take {customer name} , 

or If I filter by "item level" , this new column will take {item name} .

 

so I could choose wanted group level in the comparison chart from the filter ,

or if there any better way to do it ?

 

thanks

Erik

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v-yuta-msft
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Hi erche3,

 

Power BI doesn’t support dynamic calculate column, in addition, if my understanding is right, you have 2 tables, the first table has a column [level] which contains two different values “customer level” and “item level”, the second table has two columns [customer name] and [item name], right?

 

To achieve your requirement, you can take steps below as a reference:

  1. Click Query Editor -> Transform -> Unpivot columns [customer name] and [item name] to attribute-value in the second table.
  2. After applied, create a relationship between the two tables based on some columns.
  3. In Query Editor, merge the two table into a new table.

 

Now you can create a slicer on [level] to filter values.

 

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

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v-yuta-msft
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Community Support

Hi erche3,

 

Power BI doesn’t support dynamic calculate column, in addition, if my understanding is right, you have 2 tables, the first table has a column [level] which contains two different values “customer level” and “item level”, the second table has two columns [customer name] and [item name], right?

 

To achieve your requirement, you can take steps below as a reference:

  1. Click Query Editor -> Transform -> Unpivot columns [customer name] and [item name] to attribute-value in the second table.
  2. After applied, create a relationship between the two tables based on some columns.
  3. In Query Editor, merge the two table into a new table.

 

Now you can create a slicer on [level] to filter values.

 

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

Anonymous
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Great!

 

this is a smart way to do it . thanks very much !

 

then I suppose first I need to dulipcate the second data table , and do this unpivot separately on another table,  in order to build this deviation chart , with custom filtering "customer level" or " item level"

 

because I have   another sales overview on monthly level ,  if I take from the same  table ("unpivoted [customer name] and [item name] ) ,  I will get a double volume on monthly .

 

right ?

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