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Anonymous
Not applicable

Data Reshaping ( multiple assignment to single assignment)

Hello! 🙂
I do have a table with (amongst other columns) the following data:

NameField1Field2Field3Field4Field5
abcA1A1E3S2Q1
abcS2FrA1U1I1
..................
defA2D3 F3S2
defC2A4F3  
..................

Notes:
There are more then two names

Field 1-5 are next to each other, "Name" is further away

Field1-5 only includes one value per cell which consists of a number and a letter

I try to get/need:

T1:

NameField
abcA1
abcA1
... 
defA2
 D3
......


and

T2:

NameFieldCount
abcA13
.........
defF32
.........


Verbally spoken: I need a 1:1 assigment of name:field and also, how often a certain field occurs, regardless the Field (1-5) and the row of T1, only in dependence of the name  (so for example A1 occurs in T1 in row 1 (abc) 2x, in row 2 (abc) 1x -> abc A1 3
I only have Power BI as tool aviable and I am completly new to it. So it would be lovely, if someone could help me out! 🙂

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v-cazheng-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @Anonymous 

You can create a Calculated column and a Measure to get the tables you want.

 

Calculated column :

v-cazheng-msft_0-1613119406165.png

 

 

Name_Field =

VAR t1 =

    SELECTCOLUMNS ( 'Table', "Name", 'Table'[Name], "Field", 'Table'[Field1] )

VAR t2 =

    SELECTCOLUMNS ( 'Table', "Name", 'Table'[Name], "Field", 'Table'[Field2] )

VAR t3 =

    SELECTCOLUMNS ( 'Table', "Name", 'Table'[Name], "Field", 'Table'[Field3] )

VAR t4 =

    SELECTCOLUMNS ( 'Table', "Name", 'Table'[Name], "Field", 'Table'[Field4] )

VAR t5 =

    SELECTCOLUMNS ( 'Table', "Name", 'Table'[Name], "Field", 'Table'[Field5] )

VAR union_t =

    UNION ( t1, t2, t3, t4, t5 )

VAR tt =

    FILTER ( union_t, AND ( [Field] <> "", NOT ( ISBLANK ( [Field] ) ) ) )

RETURN

    tt

 

 

Measure :

v-cazheng-msft_1-1613119406168.png

 

 

Count = COUNTX('Name_Field','Name_Field'[Field])

 

The result looks like this:

v-cazheng-msft_2-1613119406170.png

Here is the pbix file.

 

Best Regards,

Caiyun Zheng

 

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v-cazheng-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @Anonymous 

You can create a Calculated column and a Measure to get the tables you want.

 

Calculated column :

v-cazheng-msft_0-1613119406165.png

 

 

Name_Field =

VAR t1 =

    SELECTCOLUMNS ( 'Table', "Name", 'Table'[Name], "Field", 'Table'[Field1] )

VAR t2 =

    SELECTCOLUMNS ( 'Table', "Name", 'Table'[Name], "Field", 'Table'[Field2] )

VAR t3 =

    SELECTCOLUMNS ( 'Table', "Name", 'Table'[Name], "Field", 'Table'[Field3] )

VAR t4 =

    SELECTCOLUMNS ( 'Table', "Name", 'Table'[Name], "Field", 'Table'[Field4] )

VAR t5 =

    SELECTCOLUMNS ( 'Table', "Name", 'Table'[Name], "Field", 'Table'[Field5] )

VAR union_t =

    UNION ( t1, t2, t3, t4, t5 )

VAR tt =

    FILTER ( union_t, AND ( [Field] <> "", NOT ( ISBLANK ( [Field] ) ) ) )

RETURN

    tt

 

 

Measure :

v-cazheng-msft_1-1613119406168.png

 

 

Count = COUNTX('Name_Field','Name_Field'[Field])

 

The result looks like this:

v-cazheng-msft_2-1613119406170.png

Here is the pbix file.

 

Best Regards,

Caiyun Zheng

 

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Anonymous , Try to unpivot the table in power query

https://radacad.com/pivot-and-unpivot-with-power-bi
Transpose : https://yodalearning.com/tutorials/power-query-helps-transposing-data/

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Hello @amitchandak 
Thank you for your reply. The data is not pivoted from the beginning on, the base table is just a flat data structure. Do you know how I can work with your solution then?

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