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lwklwk98
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Applying a Condition on creating a new table from existing table

Hello PowerBI Community,

 

I have a mock dataset: (Called TableA)

 

Company NameProduct Type (Only 2 Types)1Q20 Qty1Q20 Profit2Q20 Qty2Q20 Profit....4Q22 Qty4Q22 Profit
...A.....................
...B.....................
...B.....................
...A.....................

 

I would like to create a table as shown below: 

 

PeriodQtyProfit
2020-01......
2020-04......
.........

This is the code I currently have for creating the table here:

NewTable = 

UNION ( ROW ( "Period", "2020-01", "Qty" , SUM (TableA[1Q20 Qty]), "Profit" , SUM (TableA[1Q20 Profit]) ),

               ROW ( ....
)

 

I have 12 of such rows above to cover all 3 years. The problem I encounter would be that I need to separate the table according to the 2 different product types (A & B). The best is this can be displayed in 1 table but creating 2 different tables is fine as well.

 

Do advice if there is a simpler method to create the table. 

Thank you very much!

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    • lwklwk98's avatar
      lwklwk98
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      I un-pivoted my data as you mentioned and I realized that it might be better to do that instead.

       

      Even though the cleaning process of duplicating the original table and removing unnecessary columns can be tedious, it allows me to leave a proper trace of my methods in the PowerQuery instead of a long line of hard codes. 

       

      Thanks amitchandak