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pdc
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9 years ago

link fact tables

 

Hi,

 

Nooby with DAX/PowerBI. In SQL I know how to do, but I could not figure out how to do in Power BI desktop. In the screenshot from Excel I explain what I will achieve. Also the steps I see what are needed for the calculation.

 

The point is that [c dim] is not in the pivot table. Therefore a SUMX does not have the correct context. [c dim] must be added in the calculation in order to calculate the correct amount in the pivot table.

 

Hope anyone can help!

Thanks in advance.

 

 

3 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    Hi pdc，

    Based on your current sample data, you can create a new table using the following formula.

    Newtable = ADDCOLUMNS('C dimension',"v1",LOOKUPVALUE(FACT1[v1],FACT1[c dim],'C dimension'[c-dim]),"a dim",LOOKUPVALUE(FACT1[a dim],FACT1[c dim],'C dimension'[c-dim]))

    Then create relationship between new table and FACT2 table using c dim field, and create a new column in the newly created table using formula below.

    Column = 'Newtable'[v1]*RELATED(FACT2[v2])

    This way, you can create a table visual as follows.


    For more details about the above steps, please review this attached PBIX file.

    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

    • pdc's avatar
      pdc
      Frequent Visitor
      9 years ago

      Hi Lydia,

       

      Many thanks for your reply. I understand your solution. But I don't think this will solve my issue yet. If I'm correct the creation of Newtable is a static table during slice. This Newtable is refreshed during source data refresh. I need a dynamic table. I will explain why.

       

      Based on your reply I understood my issue definition must be better. So I made a new screenshot, see below.

      I added the g dim and r dim.

      r dim was added because of a slicer, that excludes R1

      g dim was added to show that v1 can be split into two values. Because there are a lot of records a summarize is required.

       

      Does anyone have a solution? Many thanks in advance!

       

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        9 years ago

        Hi pdc,

        In this sceanrio,  you would need to create another table using the following formula.
        Table = SUMMARIZE(FACT1,FACT1[a dim],FACT1[c dim],"v1",sum(FACT1[v1]))

        Then create another new table based on the above table.

        Newtable = ADDCOLUMNS('C dimension',"v1",LOOKUPVALUE('Table'[v1],'Table'[c dim],'C dimension'[c-dim]),"a dim",LOOKUPVALUE('Table'[a dim],'Table'[c dim],'C dimension'[c-dim]))

        Please review modified PBIX file.

        Thanks,
        Lydia Zhang