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Mueez
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Help Needed with Lookup Function

Hi,

 

I have a very simple code in calculated cloumns where I am using lookup value to get required information from another table.

 

=LOOKUPVALUE('Knock off details for AP'[Document No.],'Knock off details for AP'[Vendor Ledger Entry No.],'Vendor Ledger Entries'[Entry No.],'Knock off details for AP'[Entry Type],"Application")

 

It is giving me the following error: Calculation error in column 'Vendor Ledger Entries'[]: A table of multiple values was supplied where a single value was expected. 

 

I have manually checked and if done right above syntax should give only 1 result. Can someone please guide where I'm getting the code wrong.

 

 

Regards,

Mueez

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v-lionel-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Mueez ,

 

I give an sample.

I have two tables like this.

--Table

v-lionel-msft_0-1601281928537.png

--Table(2)

v-lionel-msft_1-1601281985964.png

Then I create a calculated column in 'Table'.

v-lionel-msft_2-1601282038701.png

The cause of the error is this, Table(2) has two values that are not aggregated.

v-lionel-msft_3-1601282135032.png

You can do like this.

1. Create a calculated column in 'Table(2)'

v-lionel-msft_4-1601282378396.png

2. LOOKUPVALUE()

v-lionel-msft_5-1601282407149.png

 

Best regards,
Lionel Chen

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v-lionel-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Mueez ,

 

I give an sample.

I have two tables like this.

--Table

v-lionel-msft_0-1601281928537.png

--Table(2)

v-lionel-msft_1-1601281985964.png

Then I create a calculated column in 'Table'.

v-lionel-msft_2-1601282038701.png

The cause of the error is this, Table(2) has two values that are not aggregated.

v-lionel-msft_3-1601282135032.png

You can do like this.

1. Create a calculated column in 'Table(2)'

v-lionel-msft_4-1601282378396.png

2. LOOKUPVALUE()

v-lionel-msft_5-1601282407149.png

 

Best regards,
Lionel Chen

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Thank you so much! 

Much Thanks!

 

Regards,

Mueez

Fowmy
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Super User

@Mueez 

For the criteria you provided in the LOOKUPVALUE function, there could be more than one value returned from 

'Knock off details for AP'[Document No.]. Please check the table 'Knock off details for AP'

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Mueez
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@Fowmy Thanks for replying

I am pretty sure there are no duplicates because when I change code as following I stop getting error.

= LOOKUPVALUE ('Cancellation details for AP' [Document No.], 'Knock off details for AP' [Vendor Ledger Entry No.], <hard code entry number>, 'Knock off details for AP' [ Entry Type], "Application" )

But this is obvioulsy not what I want. The formula needs to iterate through each line in of the table.

Best Regards,

Mueez

Mueez
Frequent Visitor

@Fowmy 

 

Also, even if say there are duplicates. Isn't there way we can handle those?

 

Regards,

Mueez

@Mueez 

A column cannot contain two Document Numbers. That is not the right way. But, you can still do it using CONCATNATEX and FILTER functions

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