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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"
Thanks, seems to me very complicated,
Is there another way?
Thanks
Igor
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?
- Recoba889 years ago
Helper III
You can see the column "custom2" overwrites column "custom"
- MarcelBeug9 years ago
Community Champion
That's quite logical, as the table is output from Power Query, so if you adjust the table, than all your manual modifications will be lost once the query is refreshed.
You can prevent that to adjust the Source of your query to be that same table (instead of the original source), meaning that the input for the query will be the same table as the output.
However, you can't add further columns to the table, as these will be added each time the query is refreshed, resulting in an error as the column already exist.
Maybe you can explain further what you actually want to achieve, what is your scenario? It is already strange that your original table originates from Power Query. Typically you would have an Excel table (or an external source) as input for Power Query.
I can understand if you have an external data source with updates you want to add to your table with manual added comments, but that would be additional rows (as illustrated in the video I linked previously) and not additional columns.
- Eric_Zhang9 years ago
Microsoft Employee
Recoba88 wrote:
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?
I don't see the "overwrite" in Power BI Desktop, do you use the latest version?
Click refresh
- Recoba889 years ago
Helper III
Hi Eric,
I tried again and still it didn't work.
I use Powerquery from excel not from BI Desktop .
My Excel version is : 16.0.4266.1001