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Create a dynamic Column Title name for an existing static column based on filter on date column

Timesheet data where each row is one week:

I have the following:

Col 1             Col 2       Col 3                Col 4      Col 5

StartDate       Day 1     Comment 1      Day 2     Comment 2       (etc. through Day 7)

 

Day ? - Column is hours worked on that day

Comment ? - Note from employee about hrs worked on respective day

 

Visualization will be filtered by start date.  Is there a way to either build a measure = Day 1 column and tell it to title = Date.Day (Now)?  then build another measure = Day 2 column title = Date.Day + 1, etc.? 

 

 

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Chris_White
Resolver II
Resolver II

Is it possible to shape your data in Power Query so it's daily rather than weekly?  I don't think a dynamic Column Title name is possible, and I expect moving to a table which is just WeekStartDate/Day/Comment/DayDate will remove the need for this.

 

There's almost certainly better ways of doing this in M, but what I'm thinking of is you load the data in 7 times.  First time keep StartDate/Day1/Comment1, add acolumn Called DayDate which is just equal to StartDate and rename Day1->Day & Comment1->Comment. Second time keep StartDate/Day2/Comment2, add acolumn Called DayDate which is just equal to StartDate + 1 day and rename Day2->Day & Comment2->Comment. Third time keep StartDate/Day3/Comment3, add acolumn Called DayDate which is just equal to StartDate + 2 days and rename Day3->Day & Comment3->Comment. Repeat for each day of the week. Append them all together.

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