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magtuto
Helper I
Helper I

Adding New Custom Column

Hello All,

 

If I have the following table in Power BI which I am using as my data source (say in an Excel format) with the following structure as per below.

 

| Name |  Basketball |  Tennis | Hockey |

| John   |   3              |  3          |  2          |

| Chris  |   3              |  3          |  3          |

| Pedro | 5                | 5           | 4           |

 

I have done numerous visualisations, various measures and calculalted columns then I decided I need another column to the table (Gender);

 

1.  Can you add another column after initial data source attchment?

2. How is this done?

 

Gender | Name |  Basketball |  Tennis | Hockey |

Male     | John   |   3              |  3          |  2          |

Female | Chris  |   3              |  3          |  3          |

Male    | Pedro | 5                | 5           | 4           |

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GarryFarrell
Advocate III
Advocate III

Hi,

You should be able to add the extra column in your excel source and then refresh and it should be available.

Otherwise you can add a new table in Power BI by using add data. Then you will need to join the table.

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GarryFarrell
Advocate III
Advocate III

Hi,

You should be able to add the extra column in your excel source and then refresh and it should be available.

Otherwise you can add a new table in Power BI by using add data. Then you will need to join the table.

Gary,

 

Actually it was as easy as that.  For some reason I thought that it would not work.

 

Thanks

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