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Concatenate three columns then split into rows
I need to concatenate these three columns, separated by delimiter. Sometimes there will only be one ID, sometimes two, and sometimes three. If there is no ID, it's a null value.
Here is what I'm doing to attempt this:
= Table.AddColumn(#"Renamed Columns", "Text.Combine", each Text.Combine({[Employee ID],[Employee ID2],[Employee ID3]},"; "))
but as you can see, I'm getting errors in the newly created column. Here's the error:
Once the combined column is created, I'll need to create duplicate row for each line with a ID2 and ID3.
Please help. This seemed like it should be straight-foward but, apparently not.
Thanks!!!
- Anonymous4 years ago
Hi pbrainard
The IDs are Number, not Text, try
= Table.AddColumn(#"Renamed Columns", "Text.Combine", each Text.Combine((List.Transform({[Employee ID],[Employee ID2],[Employee ID3]}, Text.From), "; "))
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- AnonymousNot applicable
Hi pbrainard
The IDs are Number, not Text, try
= Table.AddColumn(#"Renamed Columns", "Text.Combine", each Text.Combine((List.Transform({[Employee ID],[Employee ID2],[Employee ID3]}, Text.From), "; ")) - pbrainard
Helper III
Needed another ) after Text.From, but works like a charm. Thank you!!!