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Anonymous
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LOOKUPVALUE ERROR

Hi! 

I am using powerbi and I have two different datas, a1 and a2, as in the tables below

 

 

countrydatetypevalue
peru01/01/2023old5000
peru02/01/2022old4000
peru03/01/2022old8000
peru04/01/2022old3000
peru01/01/2023new1000
peru02/01/2022new8000
peru03/01/2022new500
peru04/01/2022new9000
USA01/01/2023old4000
USA02/01/2022old6000
USA03/01/2022old7000
USA04/01/2022old2000
USA01/01/2023new5000
USA02/01/2022new8000
USA03/01/2022new9000
USA04/01/2022new4000

 

countrydatevalue A
peru01/01/20234444
peru02/01/20228000
peru03/01/20229000
peru04/01/20228000
USA01/01/20235555
USA02/01/202212000
USA03/01/20226000
USA04/01/2022889

 

 

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: 

The name 'LOOKUPVALUE' wasn't recognized. Make sure it's spelled correctly.

How can I fix it?

 

 

the end result would be this

country     date             value A    Old      New     
peru01/01/2023444450001000
peru02/01/2022800040008000
peru03/01/202290008000500
peru04/01/2022800030009000
USA01/01/2023555540005000
USA02/01/20221200060008000
USA03/01/2022600070009000
USA04/01/202288920004000

 

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BA_Pete
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Super User

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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Anonymous
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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:

BA_Pete_0-1696922260731.png

 

 

Pete



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