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aoliver
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Conditional Renamed Columns

Hi everyone

It is possible to change the name of a column in powerQuery depending of the previous name? 
I am trying it in advance editor but I cant reach a solution of this, an example would be very apreciated.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

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aoliver
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Any ideas? 

Greatings

@aoliver  You can try unpivoting the columns and then replace the values under Attribute field from FirstName to SecondName, then finally pivot the table again.





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PattemManohar
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@aoliver  Could you please provide an example to understand exactly about your requirement.





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let
Source = Table.Combine({#"tempAmb(DateStart)",#"tempAmb(DateEnd)"}),

- Here, i want to check if there is a column with the name:"firstName"

#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(Source,{{"firstName", "secondName"}})
in
#"Renamed Columns"

 

So, if the query has a column called "firstName" it will be call "secondName" at the end.

I'll hope that this example would be enough to understand the problem, if not, I can write pseudocode @PattemManohar 

Thanks 

 

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