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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Automatically Create Unique Product ID

Hello all... I'm hoping someone can help me understand how to create a calculated column that creates a unique Product ID for each item in my source data. My data contains multiple rows for each pro...
  • v-lid-msft's avatar
    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    If you want to generate the unique ID like following,

     

    Item Product ID
    Apple 1
    Apple 1
    Banana 2
    Banana 2
    Candy 3
    Candy 3

     

    We can create a calculated column as following:

     

     

    Column = 
    RANKX ( 'Table', 'Table'[item],, ASC, DENSE )

     

     

     

    But if you want a distinct ID for each row, like following table , we can add an index column in Power Query Editor:

     

    Item Product ID
    Apple 1
    Apple 2
    Banana 3
    Banana 4
    Candy 5
    Candy 6

     

     


    Best regards,