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mondegren
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9 years ago
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Importing irregular group data?

I'm new Power BI and am trying to import data that is irregular.  Specifically:

Date | Order# | Attribute group where there are 3 attributes that can repeat 0 to many times (e.g. Color, Size, Quantity)

 

I'm trying to get the data so that it would fit into a structured table like:

Date | Order# | Color | Size | Quantity

 

For an example, if I have the following data:

 

6/27/17 | 00001 | Red, Large, 3

6/27/17 | 00002 | Blue, Medium, 2 | Yellow, Medium, 4 | Green, Small, 1

 

I'm trying to transform it to:

Date | Order# | Color | Size | Quantity

6/27/17 | 00001 | Red | Large | 3

6/27/17 | 00002 | Blue | Medium | 2

6/27/17 | 00002 | Yellow | Medium | 4

6/27/17 | 00002 | Green | Small | 1

 

I've seen various posts and tried to un-pivot the data, but that doesn't seem to work.  Any thoughts on what I need to do?

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  • Vvelarde's avatar
    Vvelarde
    Community Champion

    mondegren

     

    Hi, please follow the steps in the image below

     

     

    Regards

     

    Victor

    Lima - Peru

    • mondegren's avatar
      mondegren
      New Member

      Thanks Vvelarde!! This works great!

       

      I had been splitting the grouped data first and then trying to un-pivot.  The trick is to unpivot the GROUPED data, and THEN split the grouped data into the regular columns.

       

      Thanks again!

      Mondegren