Expand rows into intermediate time values

[rajulshah]

Hello everyone,

This is what my actual data look like:

Id	Start Time	End Time
1	08:00	08:34
2	03:12	05:27

And this is what I want the table as below:

Id	Start Time	End Time
1	08:00	08:34
2	03:12	04:00
2	04:00	05:00
2	05:00	05:27

Any help would be great! Thanks.

[amitchandak]

Create an hourly period table.

Then Create a new table like this. If this give period span correctly , then you can use logic to put correct start and end time for each period.

summarize(filter(table,(table[start]<=min(period[start_period]) || table[end] >=max(period[end_period])))
,table[start],table[end],period[start_period],period[end_period],table[id])

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[ImkeF · Accepted solution]

Hi @rajulshah ,

you can do this in the query editor like so: 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUTKwsDIwgNDGJkqxOtFKRiCesZUhmDa1MjJXio0FAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Id = _t, #"Start Time" = _t, #"End Time" = _t]),
    CreateListOfFullHours = Table.AddColumn(Source, "AllFullHours", each { Number.From(Text.BeforeDelimiter([Start Time], ":")) .. Number.From(Text.BeforeDelimiter([End Time], ":")) }),
    TransformListOfFullHoursAndSkipFirstHour = Table.AddColumn(CreateListOfFullHours, "SkipFirstHour", each List.Transform(List.Skip([AllFullHours]), each Text.PadStart(Text.From(_), 2, "0") & ":00")),
    CreateNewTable = Table.AddColumn(TransformListOfFullHoursAndSkipFirstHour, "Result", each Table.FromColumns( { {[Start Time]} & [SkipFirstHour], [SkipFirstHour] & {[End Time] } }, { "Start Time", "End Time" } )),
    Cleanup = Table.RemoveColumns(CreateNewTable,{"Start Time", "End Time", "AllFullHours", "SkipFirstHour"}),
    #"Expanded Result" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(Cleanup, "Result", {"Start Time", "End Time"}, {"Start Time", "End Time"})
in
    #"Expanded Result"

Simply paste this code into the advanced editor and follow the steps.