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AndyTrezise
Helper II
Helper II

Create Table using a measure

I'm trying to create a table based on another table by filtering using a measure.

 

Table2 = 
VAR
SeletedYear = IF ( COUNTROWS( ALLSELECTED( TimeSet[Year] ) ) = 1, VALUES(TimeSet[Year]), BLANK())
RETURN
FILTER(Table1, YEAR( Table1[Date] ) = SelectedYear )

 

The result is blank (i.e. no rows).

 

Yet, if I make SelectedYear = 2017 (i.e. a static number) then it works.

 

I need Table2 to be created as a result of a selected year from a slicer.

 

Is that possible?

 

 

 

 

 

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You define calculated tables with DAX but they are not dynamic. Basic workaround could look like this:

  • Reference your original table twice
  • Create calculated column
    • For the second table with year - 1
    • For the third table with year - 2
  • Create look-up table for years

pbi-19-1_1.PNGpbi-19-1_3.PNG

 

Now you can create slicer out of your look-up table and slice all three tables:

pbi-19-1_2.PNG

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Phil_Seamark
Employee
Employee

Hi @AndyTrezise

 

No, you can't dynamically re-populate a calculated table based on interactive selections made to a slicer.

 

You are better off putting all the data you need in the calculated table and then use the slicer to filter the data down to what you need.


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Thanks for the response

 

What I failed to put in the previous post is that I also need a third table - so I would end up with Table 1, Table 2 and Table 3.

 

Its not not practicle to get the user to filter each table seperately. That's 3 x slicers when I only need them to pick from one so I need to do this interactively through DAX - I think 🙂

 

I just want to be able to select a year (or year & month) from a single slicer and then filter table 1 to that selection, table 2 to year+1 and table 3 to year+2.

 

I'm not quite sure why in my previous example if I set the variabe to a static number it works but if I get the number from the selected value in the slicer it doesn't.

 

Is there any other way of filtering 3 tables via one slicer through code/DAX?

You define calculated tables with DAX but they are not dynamic. Basic workaround could look like this:

  • Reference your original table twice
  • Create calculated column
    • For the second table with year - 1
    • For the third table with year - 2
  • Create look-up table for years

pbi-19-1_1.PNGpbi-19-1_3.PNG

 

Now you can create slicer out of your look-up table and slice all three tables:

pbi-19-1_2.PNG

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