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RaudMees
4 years agoRegular Visitor
Collecting variable data from cells
Hello I am in trouble to get correct data from shown table below. I need total length for edge materials. Bad thing is - material name is variable, there might be up to 200 different names. Empty ce...
- 4 years ago
Ah. You wrote to calculate length. But you really want length and width.
Try this (explanation later if needed)
let Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content], #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{ {"INDEX3D", Int64.Type}, {"length", Int64.Type}, {"edge1", type text}, {"edge2", type text}, {"width", Int64.Type}, {"edge3", type text}, {"edge4", type text}, {"Type", type text}, {"Q.", Int64.Type}}), #"Length x Quantity" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Length x Quantity", each [length] * [#"Q."], Int64.Type), #"Width x Quantity" = Table.AddColumn(#"Length x Quantity","Width x Quantity", each [width] * [#"Q."], Int64.Type), #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Width x Quantity", each ([Type] = "edge")), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Filtered Rows",{"length", "width", "Q.", "INDEX3D", "Type"}), #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Removed Columns", {"Length x Quantity", "Width x Quantity"}, "Attribute", "Value"), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Unpivoted Other Columns", "Lengths", each if [Attribute]="edge1" or [Attribute]="edge2" then [Length x Quantity] else [Width x Quantity]), #"Removed Columns1" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Length x Quantity", "Width x Quantity", "Attribute"}), #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Removed Columns1", {"Value"}, {{"Total Length", each List.Sum([Lengths]), type number}}) in #"Grouped Rows"
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