Join us at FabCon Atlanta from March 16 - 20, 2026, for the ultimate Fabric, Power BI, AI and SQL community-led event. Save $200 with code FABCOMM.
Register now!Learn from the best! Meet the four finalists headed to the FINALS of the Power BI Dataviz World Championships! Register now
Is there a way to add a cloumn to a table in Power Query that contains the aggregate of a partition of another column?
For example I have:
| Group | Value | Color |
| A | 1 | Red |
| A | 2 | Orange |
| A | 3 | Yellow |
| A | 4 | Green |
| A | 5 | Blue |
| B | 6 | Purple |
| B | 7 | Red |
| B | 8 | Orange |
| B | 9 | Yellow |
| B | 10 | Green |
I need the max Value per Group (without losing the granularity of Color):
| Group | Value | Color | MaxGroupValue |
| A | 1 | Red | 5 |
| A | 2 | Orange | 5 |
| A | 3 | Yellow | 5 |
| A | 4 | Green | 5 |
| A | 5 | Blue | 5 |
| B | 6 | Purple | 10 |
| B | 7 | Red | 10 |
| B | 8 | Orange | 10 |
| B | 9 | Yellow | 10 |
| B | 10 | Green | 10 |
In DAX, I can add a column and use:
MaxGroupValue =
CALCULATE (
MAX ( Table[Value] ),
ALLEXCEPT ( Table, Table[Group] )
)If there a way to do it in Power Query in one add-a-column step? I do not want to do a Group By (lose the Color granularity) and then have to merge back to the original table due to performance concerns.
Thank you!
Solved! Go to Solution.
Perfect, thank you!! This helps so much!
Share feedback directly with Fabric product managers, participate in targeted research studies and influence the Fabric roadmap.
Check out the February 2026 Power BI update to learn about new features.
| User | Count |
|---|---|
| 61 | |
| 59 | |
| 42 | |
| 18 | |
| 15 |
| User | Count |
|---|---|
| 105 | |
| 99 | |
| 38 | |
| 29 | |
| 29 |