Forum Discussion
Data challenge (probably DAX)
- 2 years ago
Hi aabati68 ,
If you want a more complicated approach, you can try the first code below 🙂
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WciwoyElV0lFyzkgtKspMLQYyAzLzUhPBwrE6WBU4wiWdEvOAECTmnJOam5pXAtSKaQRWs3WU0EwAi8QCAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Shop1 = _t, Shop2 = _t, Shop3 = _t]), Custom1 = let PrevStep = Source, ColumnNames = Table.ColumnNames(PrevStep), Result = List.Combine( List.Transform(ColumnNames, (x) => let t = Table.SelectColumns(PrevStep, {x}), ColumnList = Table.ToList(t), RemoveEmpty = List.Select ( ColumnList, each _ <> null and _ <> "" ) in RemoveEmpty ) ), ShopTable = Table.FromList(Result, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), {"Shop"}) in ShopTable, #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Custom1,{{"Shop", type text}}) in #"Changed Type"But this second one is much simpler and easier to understand. You just need to an index column or any other helper column. Select that column and unpivot all others. Remove the helper and Attribute columns, filter out the empty rows, change the data type and rename if necessary.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WciwoyElV0lFyzkgtKspMLQYyAzLzUhPBwrE6WBU4wiWdEvOAECTmnJOam5pXAtSKaQRWs3WU0EwAi8QCAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Shop1 = _t, Shop2 = _t, Shop3 = _t]), #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(Source, "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type), #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Added Index", {"Index"}, "Attribute", "Value"), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Unpivoted Other Columns",{"Attribute", "Index"}), #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Removed Columns", each [Value] <> null and [Value] <> "") in #"Filtered Rows"
Apart from adding the index (not needed - you can select all columns and Unpivot) , what's the difference between this and my response on Friday?
- aabati682 years agoFrequent Visitor
Hi, the difference is that the answer that I accepted was more articulated and was describing the solution with more details. Your answer gave me the direction and the other gave me more details to do what I needed to do.
Thanks for your reply anyway, it was useful.
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