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Hi!
I am using powerbi and I have two different datas, a1 and a2, as in the tables below
| country | date | type | value |
| peru | 01/01/2023 | old | 5000 |
| peru | 02/01/2022 | old | 4000 |
| peru | 03/01/2022 | old | 8000 |
| peru | 04/01/2022 | old | 3000 |
| peru | 01/01/2023 | new | 1000 |
| peru | 02/01/2022 | new | 8000 |
| peru | 03/01/2022 | new | 500 |
| peru | 04/01/2022 | new | 9000 |
| USA | 01/01/2023 | old | 4000 |
| USA | 02/01/2022 | old | 6000 |
| USA | 03/01/2022 | old | 7000 |
| USA | 04/01/2022 | old | 2000 |
| USA | 01/01/2023 | new | 5000 |
| USA | 02/01/2022 | new | 8000 |
| USA | 03/01/2022 | new | 9000 |
| USA | 04/01/2022 | new | 4000 |
| country | date | value A |
| peru | 01/01/2023 | 4444 |
| peru | 02/01/2022 | 8000 |
| peru | 03/01/2022 | 9000 |
| peru | 04/01/2022 | 8000 |
| USA | 01/01/2023 | 5555 |
| USA | 02/01/2022 | 12000 |
| USA | 03/01/2022 | 6000 |
| USA | 04/01/2022 | 889 |
I tried add the column New using the code below, but it does not work
New = LOOKUPVALUE (a1[value],a1[date],a2[date]),a1[country],a2[country],a1[type],"new")
the following error message appears:
How can I fix it?
the end result would be this
| country | date | value A | Old | New |
| peru | 01/01/2023 | 4444 | 5000 | 1000 |
| peru | 02/01/2022 | 8000 | 4000 | 8000 |
| peru | 03/01/2022 | 9000 | 8000 | 500 |
| peru | 04/01/2022 | 8000 | 3000 | 9000 |
| USA | 01/01/2023 | 5555 | 4000 | 5000 |
| USA | 02/01/2022 | 12000 | 6000 | 8000 |
| USA | 03/01/2022 | 6000 | 7000 | 9000 |
| USA | 04/01/2022 | 889 | 2000 | 4000 |
Hi @Anonymous ,
The code you're trying is DAX, but I guess you're trying to do this in Power Query?
If so, then you should do a merge between the two tables, multi-selecting match fields in the merge dialog window like this:
a1[country] & a1[date] = a2[country] & a2[date]
Pete
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I can't use merge because in the first table there are double the lines of the second table
Are there other way?
My dax code doesn't work in powerbi too
Ok. Given table a1:
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("fdDLCoAgEAXQf3EdNM7Ya9k3RCtxV7uoCKLfT7AXMybIgHDQO9datY7brjIFOvcHAclflmnwswAA5bKX4EXwIYYTEqTmxAhCnHyzzOPhp05lCUR8RIIUiShBNPcjfdfGWzFMyFJKJmQnFROyEkzkeHb5zcEKieSIbyv7CNu6Ew==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [country = _t, date = _t, #"type" = _t, value = _t]),
chgTypes = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"date", type date}, {"value", Int64.Type}})
in
chgTypes
And table a2:
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WKkgtKlXSUTIw1AciIwMjYyDHBAiUYnUQkkZQSSMgx8LAwABF0hhJ0hJd0gSbztBgR3QrTYEAWQ7ZRkMjNI3INpqhyaFYaGGpFBsLAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [country = _t, date = _t, value = _t]),
chgTypes = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"date", type date}, {"value", Int64.Type}})
in
chgTypes
Your merged table would be as follows:
let
Source = Table.NestedJoin(a2, {"country", "date"}, a1, {"country", "date"}, "a1", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
expandNested = Table.ExpandTableColumn(Source, "a1", {"type", "value"}, {"type", "value.1"}),
pivotType = Table.Pivot(expandNested, List.Distinct(expandNested[#"type"]), "type", "value.1", List.Sum)
in
pivotType
For this output:
Pete
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