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Overwrite columns
- 9 years ago
In that case you need to merge your table (with comments) and the information from Sharepoint in a query which sends it output back to your table (which serves both as input and as output).
In order to do that, you need to have a key column (or a set of key columns) you can use to merge both tables.
So your query structure is like:
get table from Sharepoint
merge with Excel table and expand (only your comment column so the comment will be added to the table from Sharepoint)
And the output of this query is written to the Excel table.
Edit: example of a working query how it looks like in the end.
It requires some steps to set it up, as illustrated in the video that I linked in a previous post.
The name of the query is ExcelTable, so the output is used as input with the next refresh.let Source = SharepointTable, TableWithComments = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="ExcelTable"]}[Content], #"Merged Queries" = Table.NestedJoin(Source,{"Header 1"},TableWithComments,{"Header 1"},"NewColumn",JoinKind.LeftOuter), #"Expanded NewColumn" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Merged Queries", "NewColumn", {"Comments"}, {"Comments"}) in #"Expanded NewColumn"
Your question isn't very clear, but maybe you want something similar as illustrated in this video.
In that case, data was imported from SQL and comments were added in Excel.
In order to keep the comments in Excel aligned with the data from SQL, the query is adjusted so the input for the query is the same table as its output. This is merged with the data from SQL.
- Recoba889 years ago
Helper III
Thanks, seems to me very complicated,
Is there another way?
Thanks
Igor
- MarcelBeug9 years ago
Community Champion
Instead of clarifying your question, you can of course also post the same unclear question on another forum....
- Recoba889 years ago
Helper III
For Example:
Power Query Data
Data from workbook after I added custom column in excel
Data in workbook after I added anothe column in power query and refreshed the workbook
Any Idea?