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leibowjb
9 years agoFrequent Visitor
Associating Piped Values in Different Columns
Below I have a dataset where in the left column, "Operation Sale Types" I have various sales types that are contained within pipes. If you look at line 9, you can see that there are 2 different opera...
- Anonymous9 years ago
Hi leibowjb,
You can refer to below steps to expand those mixed columns.
Steps:
1. Enter to query editor.
2. Add custom column to transfer these column to table.
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Table.FromColumns({Text.Split([Type],"|"),Text.Split([Cost],"|")},{"Type","Cost"}))3. Remove origianl type, cost columns.
#"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom",{"ID", "Custom"})4. Expand table to new row.
Full query:
let Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents("C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\sample.xlsx"), null, true), #"Merge Records_Sheet" = Source{[Item="Merge Records",Kind="Sheet"]}[Data], #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Merge Records_Sheet", [PromoteAllScalars=true]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Promoted Headers",{{"ID", Int64.Type}, {"Type", type text}, {"Cost", type text}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Table.FromColumns({Text.Split([Type],"|"),Text.Split([Cost],"|")},{"Type","Cost"})), #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom",{"ID", "Custom"}), #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "Custom", {"Type", "Cost"}, {"Type", "Cost"}) in #"Expanded Custom"Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
Anonymous
9 years agoNot applicable
Hi leibowjb,
You can refer to below steps to expand those mixed columns.
Steps:
1. Enter to query editor.
2. Add custom column to transfer these column to table.
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Table.FromColumns({Text.Split([Type],"|"),Text.Split([Cost],"|")},{"Type","Cost"}))
3. Remove origianl type, cost columns.
#"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom",{"ID", "Custom"})
4. Expand table to new row.
Full query:
let
Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents("C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\sample.xlsx"), null, true),
#"Merge Records_Sheet" = Source{[Item="Merge Records",Kind="Sheet"]}[Data],
#"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Merge Records_Sheet", [PromoteAllScalars=true]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Promoted Headers",{{"ID", Int64.Type}, {"Type", type text}, {"Cost", type text}}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Table.FromColumns({Text.Split([Type],"|"),Text.Split([Cost],"|")},{"Type","Cost"})),
#"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom",{"ID", "Custom"}),
#"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "Custom", {"Type", "Cost"}, {"Type", "Cost"})
in
#"Expanded Custom"
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng