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Create a custom table duplicating rows from another table based on the other table's headers
Hi, I'm asking for help creating a custom table which creates multiple rows out of each original row in my PowerBI dataset. Please excuse me if this has already been answered.
The scenario:
I imported an excel file into my project with this table (let's name it "Customers"):
| Customer | BoughtInStore | BoughtOnline | BoughtByReferral |
| Bob | Y | Y | |
| Jane | Y | Y | Y |
| Jenny | Y |
Without leaving PowerBI and creating external excel files, I want to create a new query or table (not a measure) in my project which looks like this:
| Customer | Stage |
| Bob | BoughtInStore |
| Bob | BoughtOnline |
| Jane | BoughtInStore |
| Jane | BoughtOnline |
| Jane | BoughtByReferral |
| Jenny | BoughtInStore |
My new table will create a row for each customer and for each stage that they've been marked in the original Customers tables.
How can I acheve this?
Thank you in advance!
Anonymous this can be easily achieved using the "Unpivot" transformation in Power Query.
After importing your table, select the "Customer" column, and from the Transform tab, select "Unpivot Columns" >> "Unpivot Other Columns".
Then, filter the "Value" column to keep only "Y", and finally, remove the Value column.
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Anonymous this can be easily achieved using the "Unpivot" transformation in Power Query.
After importing your table, select the "Customer" column, and from the Transform tab, select "Unpivot Columns" >> "Unpivot Other Columns".
Then, filter the "Value" column to keep only "Y", and finally, remove the Value column.