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Anonymous
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Can I use a measure in a DAX query

I have a measure Measure = USERNAME(). I would like to pass that to a query. I will be using it to select the DB I want to connect to. I've been trying with parameters too but I cannot use DAX in a parameter, is this statement true? Any help will highly appreciate it. We don't want to let the user enter their own values, that is why we would like to dynamically assign the username to a variable and then pass it to the query

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Greg_Deckler
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Are you saying that you want to use the measure in a Power Query query?

 

You might want to check out this article:

https://querypower.com/2017/04/03/4-ways-to-get-username-in-power-query/

 

 


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Greg_Deckler
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Are you saying that you want to use the measure in a Power Query query?

 

You might want to check out this article:

https://querypower.com/2017/04/03/4-ways-to-get-username-in-power-query/

 

 


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Yes,

 

Thank you smoupre this article helped my use case! I appreciate it!

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