Retrieve all values from another table, where two acct numbers match.

[willia93]

Hi,

First post, and looking for an answer but also trying to see if I am wasting time using wrong tool, and maybe a better direction to head to.  I am using Power Query editor and table merge to try to solve this but I don't think it is possible.

I have an table with accounts and an 1 id on them, I need to compare seperate table, a master table, and retrieve all the id's associated with the accounts on the 1 id table.  I need to create a seperate table linking two tables so acct 100 has red, and then also blue and orange.

Also if the account only has one color I would like to differeniate that but I could just do that in excel if I get the first part done.

First table

acct	id
100	red
101	green
102	purple

Second table

acct	id
100	red
100	blue
100	orange
101	green
101	black
102	purple

I could do this in excel but I would like to stay in PowerBI and learn the tool that would do this.

[v-stephen-msft]

Hi @willia93 ,

What expected results do you want? You can provide me with the corresponding expected results based on your sample data. I'm glad to help.

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

@willia93 I'm not clear on the use case here, but seems like you would be better off using DAX to achieve this? Maybe not even DAX, just create a relationship between your 2 tables in the model and you could achieve this with a slicer and a table visual.

[willia93]

It would me a many to many relationship cardinality, would this be an issue. Always been scared to create them because PowerBI doesn't reccomend it.