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Novo
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Find an item in a column and return a corresponding value?

Hi everyone

 

I'm trying to get the below table using power BI and struggling to get the column Supervisor ID using LOOKUPVALUE or the FILTER function. I have the employee name, employee ID, and Supervisor ID. I want to return the Supervisor ID by matching the employee name and supervisor name. Similar to index/match on excel. Thank you!

Employee nameEmployee IDSupervisor NameSupervisor ID
A1E5
B2E5
C3E5
D4A1
E5A1
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watkinnc
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If you need to use DAX you should look up the SUMMARIZECOLUMNS function.

 

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ChielFaber
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Super User

You could add a custom column with the Text.Contains function wrapped in an if statement

 

  • If(Text.Contains(employee‐name, supervisorname) = true then 1 else 0)

If you only want the rows with matched records you can now filter the new custom column.

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