Difficulty in unpivoting Table

[New2PowerBI]

I would like to unpivot a table; but I can't seem to easily unpivot after following a couple of tutorials.  I suspect it has to do with the data as it is, I think I need to clean it up some more. 

Here is what I have in Power BI right now and what I'd like it to look like:

Existing data snapshotDesired table structure

Basically, for every course an employee has a record of (the non-null values), I would expect a row, with the Course Name and corresponding information, such as Grace Period, Frequency and Priority. 

Any help will be greatly appreciated.  🙂

[dkay84_PowerBI]

Can you please provide some sample data?  Typing everything from your screenshot is not fun...

[New2PowerBI]

Sure!

Here is an example of what I brought in from Excel (a matrix).  The first two columns came in as one but I split them in Power BI, so there is the name and employee number now.

Employee Name	Employee Number	Column2	010.100 development…etc	020.200 development…etc	500.100 course xyz name	020.200 development…etc
Anderson, Jesse	123	Frequency	36	12	12	24
Anderson, Jesse	123	Priority	1	3	5	1
Anderson, Jesse	123	Grace Period	365	90	60	365

Here is where I want to get to so I can build my visualizations:

Course Name	Employee Name	Grace Period	Frequency	Priority
010.100 development…etc	Anderson, Jesse	365	36	1
020.200 development…etc	Anderson, Jesse	90	12	3
500.100 course xyz name	Anderson, Jesse	60	12	5
020.200 development…etc	Anderson, Jesse	365	24	1

Something tells me the third column ( in original) is what it's not liking, Column2.  I feel like that is what is throwing off the unpivot option and need to break this down into more than one step to get it right. 

Thanks for your prompt response!  🙂

[dkay84_PowerBI]

Got it:

1. Duplicate your table
2. In original table, remove column 2
3. In orginal table, highlight the Employee Name and Number column, then right click and select "Unpivot Other Columns"
4. In dupe table, remove the Employee Name, Number and Column 2 columns
5. Demote headers
6. Transpose table
7. Rename columns (Course Name, Frequency, etc.)
8. Create a Merge Query
   1. Select original table
   2. Select Merge Queries as New
   3. Select the "Attribute" column in original table
   4. Select "Course Name" column in dupe table
   5. Set Join Kind to Left Outer
9. In Merged table, select Attribute column and remove dupes
10. Remove the "Value" and "Attribute" column
11. Expand the NewColumn column (with the nested tables)

Done!

[Sean · Accepted solution]

@New2PowerBI

1) Select Employee Name, Employee Number and Column 2 - Unpivot Other Columns

2) Select Column 2 - Pivot Column - Values Column select Value - Don't Aggregate

3) Rename Attribute Column (rearrange columns if you want)

Hope this helps!

[dkay84_PowerBI]

**bleep** it Sean! You outdid me again! Plus a video... you're just showing off

Wow the word D A M N gets bleeped out?!

[New2PowerBI]

Wow!  Thank you!!!  I knew it had to be a two-step "something" but just couldn't figure it out.  I met with someone here at work yesterday for close to an hour and they couldn't figure it out.  😞

Amazing!  Thank you!!!  Loving the help and support in this community and looking forward to sharing with others!  🙂