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emcalleja
6 years agoRegular Visitor
Power Query / DAX equivalent to Excel's Index Match with Dynamic Array
Hi all I hope you all are safe and sound. Hope you guys can help me, I've been struggling with this problem for a few days now. I have two tables to handle raw material, one for purchases (En...
- 6 years ago
Ok emcalleja , try this. And I apologize if I mangle the field meanings due to them being in not English. 😂
This measure works I think.
Price = VAR varCurrentDate = MAX( Salidas[Fecha de movimiento] ) VAR varCurrentItem = MAX( Salidas[Nombre] ) VAR varEntradasData = FILTER( Entradas, Entradas[Nombre] = varCurrentItem && Entradas[Fecha de movimiento] <= varCurrentDate ) VAR varEntradasMaxDate = MAXX( varEntradasData, [Fecha de movimiento] ) VAR varPrice = MAXX( FILTER( varEntradasData, [Fecha de movimiento] = varEntradasMaxDate ), [Costo / Venta] ) RETURN varPriceThe problem is you need a bit of modeling. See my PBIX. file. It returns this:
Here is what I did
- I got all of the names (nombres?) from both tables and put them in a Names table, then removed duplicates. The problem is you have some case sensitivity issues, so I had to change case to "proper" because to Power Query, Car <> CAR <> CaR. DAX doesn't care. Power Query does.
- I used hte Name table as my 1-many in the relationship shown here:
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- Then I created and used that measure in the table visual above. I am pretty sure this can be optimized, but shoudl get you started.
emcalleja
6 years agoRegular Visitor
This works perfectly, thank you for the help and with the work on understanding the values in Spanish!
Thank you again.
I'll work on this code to optimize it