Trying to filter excel table in Power BI directly to make calculations

[Anish7117]

I have a PowerBI Project with an excel sheet containing 4 columns.

1. Country

2. Subject

3. Student Name

4. Student Score

I have another table with the following:

1. Country

2. Subject

3. Student Name

4. The Peers

The peers are all the students which are the peers to the current selected student. So the score is calculated from the first excel table.

What I want to do is,

in PowerBI, if I select the Student Country and Name, PowerBI automatically filters it in the second table and Find the Peer Names.

So I can calculate the Peer Scores from the first table. As of now, I have to manually enter the Peer Names in table 2 (From where the list is being fetched). How can I do it? is there a possibility of a virtual table or something?

[v-xinruzhu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thanks for the solution lbendlin offered, and i want to offer some more information for user to refer to.

hello @Anish7117 ，you can refer to the following sample.

Sample data 

Table

Table(2)

You can create the following meaures

MEASURE =
VAR a =
    CALCULATETABLE (
        VALUES ( 'Table (2)'[The Peers] ),
        ALL ( 'Table (2)' ),
        'Table (2)'[Country] IN VALUES ( 'Table'[Country] ),
        'Table (2)'[Student Name] IN VALUES ( 'Table'[Student Name] )
    )
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( 'Table'[Student Score] ),
        ALL ( 'Table' ),
        'Table'[Student Name] IN a
    )

Measure 2 = SUMX(VALUES('Table'[Student Name]),[Measure])

Then put the measure2 to the visual.

Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

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[lbendlin]

That is a standard "Filtering Up"  pattern.  Read about REMOVEFILTERS.  You only need one table.