LOOKUPVALUE DAX with Parent-child hierarchy functions

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

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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