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Does anyone know if Tabular Editor is able to read parameter values from the model?
I am creating a Power BI model that is made up primarily of parameter values that interact with each other. There are no data tables in the model other than a list of years. I like to write DAX in Tabular Editor but it doesn't seem to read SELECTEDVALUE when I have a slider selection in the model. For example, I have a measures like this:
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I don't think its possible for Tabular Editor to read the selections in slicers, but you can simulate it using TREATAS and variables. e.g. if you had a date slicer and a color slicer you could emulate the user selections with something like
DEFINE
VAR myFilter =
TREATAS (
{ ( 2022, 6, "Red" ) },
'Date'[Year],
'Date'[Month number],
'Product'[Colour]
)
EVALUATE
SUMMARIZECOLUMNS ( 'Product'[Brand], myFilter, "Sales Amount", [Sales Amount] )You can use multiple filters in SUMMARIZECOLUMNS, so you could potentially have one filter per slicer rather than combining them.
I don't think its possible for Tabular Editor to read the selections in slicers, but you can simulate it using TREATAS and variables. e.g. if you had a date slicer and a color slicer you could emulate the user selections with something like
DEFINE
VAR myFilter =
TREATAS (
{ ( 2022, 6, "Red" ) },
'Date'[Year],
'Date'[Month number],
'Product'[Colour]
)
EVALUATE
SUMMARIZECOLUMNS ( 'Product'[Brand], myFilter, "Sales Amount", [Sales Amount] )You can use multiple filters in SUMMARIZECOLUMNS, so you could potentially have one filter per slicer rather than combining them.
@johnt75 , Thanks, that's a great suggestion and will work for what I'm trying to do. I appreciate your input!
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