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Difficulty in unpivoting Table
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! :smileyhappy:
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! :-)
Got it:
- Duplicate your table
- In original table, remove column 2
- In orginal table, highlight the Employee Name and Number column, then right click and select "Unpivot Other Columns"
- In dupe table, remove the Employee Name, Number and Column 2 columns
- Demote headers
- Transpose table
- Rename columns (Course Name, Frequency, etc.)
- Create a Merge Query
- Select original table
- Select Merge Queries as New
- Select the "Attribute" column in original table
- Select "Course Name" column in dupe table
- Set Join Kind to Left Outer
- In Merged table, select Attribute column and remove dupes
- Remove the "Value" and "Attribute" column
- Expand the NewColumn column (with the nested tables)
Done!
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! :smileyhappy:
- **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?!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! :-)