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Toby001
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Create simple DAX measure ..

Dear community,
Being a power bi beginner, I am struggling to setup a very simple DAX measure to define 2 icons.
iconMeasure = SWITCH(TRUE(),[SPI]>1,"TriangleHigh","TriangleLow")
SPI is a standard decimal column within a table.
It gives me the error:
The value of SPI could not be evaluated. Either the column doesn't exist or for this column no actual row exists
I appreciate your ideas.
Best Toby
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smpa01
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 can you try. You need to pass on scalar value and not a column in SWITCH

SWITCH(TRUE(), MAX(tbl[SPI])....)
or
SWITCH(TRUE(), CALCULATE(MAX(tbl[SPI]))....)

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HotChilli
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IF there's only 1 case in the SWITCH, use an IF statement.

I think this will give you a clearer error message.

smpa01
Community Champion
Community Champion

 can you try. You need to pass on scalar value and not a column in SWITCH

SWITCH(TRUE(), MAX(tbl[SPI])....)
or
SWITCH(TRUE(), CALCULATE(MAX(tbl[SPI]))....)

@Toby001

 

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Proud to be a Super User!
My custom visualization projects
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