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Transform Data Table - Extract Data from Existing Column and Return New Column

Hello Community, I am new to Power Query and am trying to use some of my existing data to create a modified version of it. I would like to use my existing table to create a new column (or new table...
  • Stachu's avatar
    7 years ago

    you can use Merge for that, merging with current table, with following joins (you add second and more joins by clicking on a column with Ctrl pressed):

    you can then expand the relevant column and rename it properly

    you can also see how it works with this M query

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("Pc3LDcAwCAPQXThzKKH5zYKy/xoB6nJwFD1Z2IyEuLI8jQ6bv5wJHaXqP4XO0heS/ScrwR2ULMUDN4J36cQNxZ6kLvQUe59uiP57zucC", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Index = _t, ATD = _t, #"run id" = _t, #"data 1" = _t, #"Ref id" = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Index", Int64.Type}, {"ATD", Int64.Type}, {"run id", Int64.Type}, {"data 1", Int64.Type}, {"Ref id", Int64.Type}}),
        #"Merged Queries" = Table.NestedJoin(#"Changed Type", {"Ref id", "ATD"}, #"Changed Type", {"run id", "ATD"}, "Changed Type", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
        #"Expanded Changed Type" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Merged Queries", "Changed Type", {"data 1"}, {"Changed Type.data 1"}),
        #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Expanded Changed Type",{{"Changed Type.data 1", "Ref data"}})
    in
        #"Renamed Columns"