power bi DAX hierarchical table concatenation of names - powerbi

Question

Since two days I'm on a problem and I can't solve it so I come here to ask some help...
I have that bit of dax that basically take the path of a hierarchical table (integers) and take the string names of the 2 first in the path.
the names I use:
'HIERARCHY' the hierarchical table with names, id, path, nbrItems, string
mytable / addedcolumn1/2 the new table used to emulate the for loop
DisplayPath =
var __Path =PATH(ParentChild[id], ParentChild[parent_id])
var __P1 = PATHITEM(__Path,1) var __P2 = PATHITEM(__Path,2)
var l1 = LOOKUPVALUE(ParentChild[Place],ParentChild[id],VALUE(__P1))
var l2a = LOOKUPVALUE(ParentChild[Place],ParentChild[id],VALUE(__P2))
var l2 = if(ISBLANK(l2a), "", " -> " & l2a)
return CONCATENATE(l1,l2)
My problem is... I don't know the number of indexes in my path, can go from 0 to I guess 15...
I've tried some things but can't figure out a solution.
First I added a new column called nbrItems which calculate the number of items in the list of the path.
The two columns:
Then I added that bit of code that emulates a for loop depending on the number of items in the path list, and I'd like in it to
get name of parameters
concatenate them in one string that I can return and get
string =
var n = 'HIERARCHY'[nbrItems]
var mytable = GENERATESERIES(1, n)
var addedcolumn1 = ADDCOLUMNS(mytable, "nom", /* missing part: get name */)
var addedcolumn2 = ADDCOLUMNS(addedcolumn1, "string", /* missing part: concatenate previous concatenated and new name */)
var mymax = MAXX(addedcolumn2, [Value])
RETURN MAXX(FILTER(addedcolumn2, [Value] = mymax), [string])
Full table:
Thanks for your help in advance!

Answer 1

Ok, so after some research and a lot of try and error... I've came up to a nice and simple solution:
The original problem was that I had a hierarchical table ,but with all data in the same table.
like so
What I did was, adding a new "parent" column with this dax:
parent =
var a = 'HIERARCHY'[id_parent]
var b = CALCULATE(MIN('HIERARCHY'[libelle]), FILTER(ALL('HIERARCHY'), 'HIERARCHY'[id_h] = a))
RETURN b
This gets the parent name from the id_parent (ref. screen).
then I could just use the path function, not on the id's but on the names... like so:
path = PATH('HIERARCHY'[libelle], 'HIERARCHY'[parent])
It made the problem easy because I didn't need to replace the id's by there names after this...
and finally to make it look nice, I used some substitution to remove the pipes:
formated_path = SUBSTITUTE('HIERARCHY'[path], "|", " -> ")
final result