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Anonymous
6 years agoNot applicable
Conditionally remove duplicates
Hello Community, Is there a way in PowerQuery or Excel to conditionally remove duplicates? Very quick context there are employee id numbers, their planned hours for the year, the financial ye...
- 6 years ago
Anonymous here is the example power query script which you can use to achieve it.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUTI0ABFA7BZpaKYUq4MkaoRP1BxV1BhZFKTECCRqgmwCXNQUqyh2E/Cai12tBVa1lljdABSNBQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Emp = _t, Planned = _t, Hours = _t, Year = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Emp", Int64.Type}, {"Planned", Int64.Type}, {"Hours", Int64.Type}, {"Year", type text}}), #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"Emp", "Year"}, {{"Rank", each Table.AddIndexColumn(_, "Rank", 1)}}), #"Expanded Rank" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Rank", {"Hours", "Planned", "Rank"}, {"Hours", "Planned", "Rank.1"}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Expanded Rank", "New Planned", each (if [Rank.1] = 1 then [Planned] else null), type number), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Planned", "Rank.1"}), #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Removed Columns",{{"Hours", Int64.Type}}) in #"Changed Type1" - 6 years agoHi Anonymous ,First, you can select "pers.no" and "FY" columns in the edit query, then click "Remove rows"→" Remove duplicate".Best Regards,
Liang
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V-lianl-msft
6 years agoCommunity Support
Hi Anonymous ,
Is this problem sloved?
If not, please let me know.
Best Regards,
Liang
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Liang
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