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5 years ago
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Creating hierarchy tree from data

Hello, need help in figuring out how to manipulate data that is returned to me where the parent column may have both the top level and a sub level. So if the data looks like this: Parent Name ...
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    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hi dstanisljevic ,

    I created a sample pbix file(see attachment), please check whether that is what you want.

    1. Added an auxiliary table to get column values without parent elements (4, 5, 6)

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUXJUitWJVjICspzALGMgyxnMMgGyDMEsUyDLCMwyA7KMlWJjAQ==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Parent = _t, Name = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Parent", type text}, {"Name", type text}}),
        #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each if List.Contains(#"Changed Type"[Name], [Parent]) then null else [Parent]),
        #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Parent", "Name"}),
        #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Removed Columns", each ([Custom] <> null)),
        #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Filtered Rows",{{"Custom", "Name"}})
    in
        #"Renamed Columns"

    2. Append this table to the original table

    3. Create some calculated columns to get the path and pathlength by using Parent and Child functions

    Path = PATH('Table'[Name],'Table'[Parent])
    Pathlen = PATHLENGTH('Table'[Path])

    4. Create calculated columns to get the parent, sub and name values

    nParent =
    VAR _len =
        MAX ( 'Table'[Pathlen] )
    RETURN
        IF ( 'Table'[Pathlen] = _len, PATHITEM ( 'Table'[Path], 1 ), BLANK () )
    Sub = 
    VAR _len =
        MAX ( 'Table'[Pathlen] )
    RETURN
        IF ( 'Table'[Pathlen] = _len, PATHITEM ( 'Table'[Path], 2 ))
    nName = 
    VAR _len =
        MAX ( 'Table'[Pathlen] )
    RETURN
        IF ( 'Table'[Pathlen] = _len, PATHITEM ( 'Table'[Path], 3 ))

    Best Regards