DAX Parent-child functions help us to get the organizational hierarchy. You can use Lookupvalue with parent-child functions to get the name of employee/ manager from specified path.
Refer Parent-child DAX functions- PATH, PATHITEM, PATHCONTAIN, PATHLENGTH
So let’s start, sample dataset format as below:
Table Name – EmployeeData
EmpId | Dept | EmpName | Parent Id |
1 | Manager | Sandeep Raturi | |
2 | Team Lead | Antonio Moreno | 1 |
3 | Team Lead | Aria Cruz | 1 |
4 | Team Lead | Dinesh Raturi | 1 |
5 | Developer | Matt | 4 |
6 | Developer | Jhon | 4 |
7 | Developer | Jacobs | 2 |
8 | Developer | David | 3 |
9 | IT Support | Jack | 2 |
In above dataset we have EmpId, Dept, EmpName & Parent Id columns, and Parent Id column contains Employee manager Id.
Let’s get started-
Suppose you want to see full name of the second level managers, so in order to achieve this follow these steps-
Step-1: Create a calculated column to get the levels of hierarchy path to using PATH DAX.
Path = PATH(EmployeeData[EmpId],EmployeeData[Parent Id])

Path DAX
Step-2: Create another calculated column and write below DAX-
Level-2 Emp Name = LOOKUPVALUE(EmployeeData[EmpName],EmployeeData[EmpId], PATHITEM(EmployeeData[Path],2 ,1))
DAX Description:
LOOKUPVALUE– Returns the value for the row that meets all criteria specified by search conditions.
PATHITEM– This function can be used to return a specific level from a hierarchy returned by a PATH function. Here 2 is position & 1 returned integer datatype.

Lookupvalue with Pathitem
Now get the name of 3rd level managers from specified path-
Level-3 Emp Name = LOOKUPVALUE(EmployeeData[EmpName],EmployeeData[EmpId], PATHITEM(EmployeeData[Path],3 ,1))

Parent child dax
Refer Parent-child DAX functions- PATH, PATHITEM, PATHCONTAIN, PATHLENGTH
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How would you go about sorting the level 3 column by EmpId since there’s duplicate blanks in the level 3 column? Thanks