Create calculated column from a calculation in a different table

[mq2020]

Hi!

I have a table (Table 1) with organisations and another table (Table 2) with users per organisation and whether they are claimin or not.

I want to add a calculated column in Table 1 (in blue below) to show the number of users claiming for each organisation (coming from Table 2). The common field in both tables is the organisation id.

How can I do this please? Thanks

Table 1
Organisation	Users Claiming
A	1
B	2

Table 2
User	Organisation	UserClaiming Y/N
x	A	y
y	A	n
z	B	y
h	B	y

[parry2k]

@mq2020 assuming you have a relationship between these two tables on Organisation column, just add a measure and in table visual , drop organization and this new measure.

Measure = 
CALCULATE( COUNTROWS ( Table2 ), Table2[User Claiming] = "Y" )

[mq2020]

Hi!

I do have a relationship of 1 to Many.

What I am trying to do is display a line chart with av.sales for 2 groups (Organisations with users claiming vs Organisations with users not claiming).

The sales are in a 3rd table with has a relationship of Many to 1 with Table 1 (Organisations) so I end up with:

Sales (Many to 1) -> Organisations (1 to Many) -> Users

When i put together info from the sales table and the Users table it is not working, hence, I figured, it may be easier if i add the column I need in the Organisations table (i.e if that organisation has any user claiming)

Thanks,

[v-yiruan-msft]

Hi @mq2020 ,

Could you please provide some sample data in table "Sales"(exclude sensitive data)? What's your expected result? What you want is to get the average of sales? If yes, then whether it need to calculate based on certain conditions?

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What I am trying to do is display a line chart with av.sales for 2 groups (Organisations with users claiming vs Organisations with users not claiming).

Best Regards

Rena

[mq2020]

Hi @v-yiruan-msft 

These are the tables and relationships:

Sample data of the 3 tables:

Sales -> 

Organisations -> 

Users -> 

At the moment I am displaying Av/units per organisation (a measure in the model) over time (visual below).

What I'd like to do is split this into 2 groups (organisations with users claiming vs organisations with users not claiming). 

When I try adding this field (User Claimed Y/N) to the model (in the legend part of the visual), it's not doing what I expect.

What I expect is the following (which I've done in excel to demonstrate)

[parry2k]

@mq2020 It is a bit of confusing model, what happens if users under an organization have both yes and no, which bucket it will fall or this will never happen? Yes/No it is at a user level and you are viewing the data at org level, so you need to clarify your business rules.

There are many ways to do it but it will depend on your answer above.

[mq2020]

Hi again,

So I think I found a way to add that extra column however when I try to use IF to do the classification it's giving me a "circular dependancy error" - any idea how to get around this?

I first created a column in table Users to change Y N to 0 and 1 (Just so i can then sum this in the next step)

Users Claiming 1/0 = if(User[User Claimed Y/N]="Y",1,0)

Then I created a column in Organisations table to calculate the sum of users claiming using the following formula, which seems to be working as expected:

Claiming Users = CALCULATE(sum(User[Users Claiming 1/0]),USERELATIONSHIP(Organisations[Organisation ID],User[Organisation ID]))

My last step is to add an extra column in the Table Organisations to classify each organistion into groups depending on the value of the calcualted column above, however when I do this simple IF statement I get a circular dependency error - not sure how to get around this.

[v-yiruan-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @mq2020 ,

Please try to create the following measure to get the flag of every organization with claim:

Org Claiming YN = 
VAR sumofClaimU =
    CALCULATE ( DISTINCTCOUNT ( 'User'[User] ), 'User'[User Claimed Y/N] = "y" )
RETURN
    IF ( sumofClaimU > 0, "Y", "N" )

Best Regards

Rena

[mq2020]

Thank you so much @v-yiruan-msft !

I actually applied the same to a calculated column istead of measure so that I could use the column to split my line chart using the Legend Box and use the grouping in slicers which the measure wasnt allowing me to do.

[mq2020]

Hi @parry2k 

If 0 users claim-> Organisation Claiming No

If 1 or more than one users claim - Organisation Claiming Yes

Initially I just wanted to fix it my adding a column to the table Organisations to count the number of users claiming for each organisation, then I can add an extra column to do the classification with IF.

It is the count of users claiming that i dont know how to add in the Organisations table - if I could get help with this then that should solve the issue I believe. Thank you so much