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Use DAX expressions to set parameters?

Can you use DAX expressions to set parameters? Basically, I have a very large multi year detailed data set and a summary query. What I would like to do is use the summary query to present information and use any selections that are made in a direct query to the detail records. I figured this is best done by setting selections as parameters to be used in the direct query but I can't tell if it works yet.

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Hey,

 

PowerQuery queries are creating the "1st level" of the data model, the "2nd" level is created by something than can be considered as model processing, this "materializes" all the calculated column that have been added using DAX.

 

Finally a user interacts with the model (2nd level) by selecting values from a slicer, etc ...

 

These interactions can not be passed down to the levels that have been creating the data model. This explains why a measure can not be used inside a calculated column. From a technical point of view this is possibel, but the value of the calculated column will not change if the the measure will change, e.g. by a user interaction with the data model.

 

Regards,

Tom



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Hey,

 

unfortunately it's not possible to pass the value from any DAX statement to a parameter that is used to fetch data from a data source.

 

This in a way would be result into some kind of circular dependency.

As a data refresh, meaning "reading" data from a datasource, creates the basis for any DAX statements.

 

Regards,

Tom



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I can see how this could be an issue if I was using DAX to pass a parameter to the same query I used the DAX on, but I was hoping to taking selections from slicers/visuals built based off of query A, set it as a paramater, and use that in query B.

Hey,

 

PowerQuery queries are creating the "1st level" of the data model, the "2nd" level is created by something than can be considered as model processing, this "materializes" all the calculated column that have been added using DAX.

 

Finally a user interacts with the model (2nd level) by selecting values from a slicer, etc ...

 

These interactions can not be passed down to the levels that have been creating the data model. This explains why a measure can not be used inside a calculated column. From a technical point of view this is possibel, but the value of the calculated column will not change if the the measure will change, e.g. by a user interaction with the data model.

 

Regards,

Tom



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