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Good morning, I have a question, I want to make a filter by description instead of codes, that is, I have a table of countries where there are country codes and their corresponding name are matched, and then I have a report where only these codes are shown, but only 3 codes are used. If I would like to make a filter for these codes, but that appear their name, how would I do it, I can not find the way in the whole course.
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Hi @OmoigirlBI
You can create a measure.
Measure =
VAR a =
SUMMARIZE (
FILTER (
MASTER - GEOGRAPHY,
[GEOGRAPHY_CODE] IN VALUES ( 'MY REPORT'[GEOGRAPHY_CODE] )
),
[GEOGRAPHY_DESCRIPTION_ES]
)
RETURN
IF ( SELECTEDVALUE ( MASTER - GEOGRAPHY[GEOGRAPHY_DESCRIPTION_ES] ) IN a, 1, 0 )
Then put the measure to the slicer visual filter and remove your code field
Then it can only display the description.
Best Regards!
Yolo Zhu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Yessss!!! It´s working!!!
Thank you very much
Hi,
Welcome !
Can you please put a screenshot of your data and also show us the desired outcome so that we can help 😀
Hi and thank you!!
I have two tables, one master of geographies, and another one with my report, they are related by geography_code, but i don't know how in my filter, use description instead of code of geography.
I could only get this, but I need the description alone:
Hi @OmoigirlBI
You can create a measure.
Measure =
VAR a =
SUMMARIZE (
FILTER (
MASTER - GEOGRAPHY,
[GEOGRAPHY_CODE] IN VALUES ( 'MY REPORT'[GEOGRAPHY_CODE] )
),
[GEOGRAPHY_DESCRIPTION_ES]
)
RETURN
IF ( SELECTEDVALUE ( MASTER - GEOGRAPHY[GEOGRAPHY_DESCRIPTION_ES] ) IN a, 1, 0 )
Then put the measure to the slicer visual filter and remove your code field
Then it can only display the description.
Best Regards!
Yolo Zhu
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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