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Dudeman
Helper I
5 years ago
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fixing circular reference in calculated column

Hello.    I'm getting a circular reference I can't figure out how to fix when creating a calculated column version of a calculated measure. Here is my workbook Airport code workbook (wetransfer li...
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    v-yalanwu-msft
    5 years ago

    Hi Dudeman   ；

     

    When you use Live connection, you can not add columns,  So maybe you could try to modify the MaxArrival2 column by the following formula:

    MaxArrival2 =
CALCULATE (
    MAX ( 'Legs'[arrivalTime] ),
    FILTER (
        ALL ( 'Legs' ),
        [BookingNumber] = EARLIER ( [BookingNumber] )
            && [ArrivalDate] = EARLIER ( [ArrivalDate] )
    )
)

    The final output is shown below:  

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team_ Yalan Wu
    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.  

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v-yalanwu-msft
Community Support
5 years ago

Hi Dudeman  , 

 

You could create two columns by the following formula: 

MaxArrival2 = CALCULATE(MAX( 'Legs'[arrivalTime]),ALLEXCEPT ('Legs','Legs'[BookingNumber],'Legs'[ArrivalDate]))
Result Destination 2 =
IF (
    [arrivalTime]
        = CALCULATE (
            MIN ( [arrivalTime] ),
            FILTER (
                ALLEXCEPT ( Legs, Legs[BookingNumber] ),
                [arrivalTime] = [MaxArrival2]
            )
        ),
    [arrivalAirport]
)

The final output is shown below:  

Best Regards,
Community Support Team_ Yalan Wu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.  

Dudeman's avatar
Dudeman
Helper I
5 years ago

v-yalanwu-msft thanks Yalan. That does work in the sample file and I appreciate the help so much.

However, when I try it in my actual file I'm unable to get the Calculate or AllExcept functions to work in the formula. I think it has to do with the fact I'm connected to a live PBI dataset my BI team has created (or the fact I'm on an Enterprise version of PBI maybe). 

Is there a workaround for live datasets? I tried to add the column to the Master Airports table, where it does work, but when I add it to the viz it breaks and a black box pops up and disappears very quickly with some kind of SQL error. I can't screenshot it - it's too fast.

 

Thoughts?