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Calculate average based on dynamic column reference
- 6 years ago
Hello BartVW
in order to create a dynamically solution, you have to tell us what can be a rule, to select the correct columns. Here an example where I calculated the average of all columns that contain a ".". If this is your requirement, you can use the code, otherwise tell us all names of your columns, and we will find another logic. Replace the source-step and changedtype with your real data table
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUTICYmMgNgFiUyA2A2JzpdhYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t, #"007.2020" = _t, #"008.2020" = _t, #"009.2020" = _t, #"010.2020" = _t, Result = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", Int64.Type}, {"Column2", Int64.Type}, {"007.2020", Int64.Type}, {"008.2020", Int64.Type}, {"009.2020", Int64.Type}, {"010.2020", Int64.Type}, {"Result", Int64.Type}}), AddAverageOfMonths = Table.AddColumn ( #"Changed Type", "AverageMonth", (row)=> List.Average(Record.FieldValues(Record.SelectFields(row, List.Select(Table.ColumnNames(#"Changed Type"), each Text.Contains(_,"."))))) ) in AddAverageOfMonthsCopy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works.
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Jimmy
Hi, BartVW
Without a glance of your full dataset, I can so far only come up with such suggestions.
- List.FindText func returns a list, thus no more {} are needed here;
- Besides, the resulting list is a list of text, it's supposed to be enclosed in Number.From for a conversion before using List.Average.
As far as I'm concerned, I'd usually use DAX to average a list of values within a specific range. But it's not absolute as such; it depends on, more or less, the dataset.