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M code newbie question: I am trying to move the values in the "Country/Region" column into into the "Province/State" column and replace the moved value in Country/Region with a region name, e.g., "Europe". My efforts to find a solution are floundering. Any guidance appreciated.
Right, there is no magic bullet for that. What I did was take the values in your Country/Region table and copied them. I pasted these into a new Enter Data query called Table. I then added a column for Region and put values in there for the region. Now, I got lazy and because I am from the US my geography skills suck so there are a lot of Europe's in there. Just click the gear icon next to the Source step and correct all that to what you want. It's manual, but you only have to do it once.
Now, I then added a Merge Queries step to the COVID-19 table that merges this new Table into the COVID-19 table so that you now have the desired Region column. Updated PBIX is attached.
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- Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Sample data is always helpful (as text). Please see this post regarding How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490
That being said, right-click your Country/Region column and choose Duplicate column. Remove your existing Province/State column. Rename your duplicate Country/Region column to Province/State. You could then use Replace Values to replace "Italy" with Europe for example.
MojoGeneGreg:
Thanks for the response. The data shown in the screenshot is filtered to show only "Italy" and thus illustrate the problem. The Country/Region column actually has countries such as "United States" where the individual states appear in the "Province/State" column. So, the solution you suggested will remove this important data.
Here is a OneDrive link to the PBIX file: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtPbkr1asYiKgeQ2gjY3fbohKiKrRg?e=Fy3AdU
- Greg_Deckler
OK, I took a look at the PBIX.
The process is basically this in your case. Create a new Conditional Column. In this column use rules like the image:
Remove the original Province/State column. Rename the new column to Province/State. I have updated the PBIX for you, it is attached below my signature of this message.