Apr 13 2021 07:36 AM
Hello everyone!
I am having a problem which is doing my head in.
So in the file attached, you can see that I have a table for Package, a table for Arenas (Products), and a table of which arenas belong to which Packages. An Arena can belong to 1 or many Packages and a Package can include 1 or many Arenas, therefore I created a table between them where you simply add this information.
Now, I want to see which arenas belong to which Packages but the filter direction goes in the "wrong way". I want to be able to filter the Package table and see which arenas that belong to that package but as you can see, I get that all arenas are included in all packages (because of the filter direction).
If this was Power BI, I would change the direction of the relationship to "both" but this does not seem to be a function in Excel Power Pivot.
I need help :)
Kind Regards,
Kind Regards,
Robin
Apr 13 2021 09:16 AM - edited Apr 13 2021 09:23 AM
@Robin_Lindstrom Use the ArenaCode from the Arena_Package table in stead of the Arena table. I believe that gives you what you need. Two packages showing the Arenas that are included in each of them. See attached.
Apr 13 2021 02:16 PM
As variant you may add measure
Count Arena:=CALCULATE(
COUNTROWS(Arena),
CROSSFILTER(Arena[ArenaCode],Arena_Package[ArenaCode],Both)
)
Result is
Grand Total is 5 since totally it's 5 different arenas appeared. In general depends on what do you need if modify.
Apr 13 2021 11:13 PM
Apr 13 2021 11:15 PM - edited Apr 13 2021 11:16 PM
Thank you Sergei!
I will ask you the same thing I asked Riny. In Power BI, you can set the filter direction to bi-directional but that does not seem to be the case in Excel Power Pivot? Eventually, I want to build a bigger model but I am unsure if that will work in Excel if the filtering direction only goes one way. Do you have any experience regarding this?
Apr 14 2021 12:37 AM
No, bi-directional is not supported in Power Pivot. CROSSFILTER() works instead, but you shall add it to each measure which uses such relationships.
In general it's better to avoid bi-directional even in Power BI since decreases the performance, but it very depends on the model is that critical or not.
Apr 14 2021 12:38 AM
Apr 14 2021 02:44 AM
@Robin_Lindstrom , glad to help