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I'm trying to expand a column (tag Property) derived from an xml table that can have 1 or more children (tags value):
<objects>
<object name="a">
<property>
<value>1</value>
</property>
</object>
<object name="b">
<property>
<value>1</value>
<value>2</value>
<value>3</value>
</property>
</object>
<object name="c">
<property>
<value>3</value>
</property>
</object>
<object name="d">
<property>
<value>1</value>
<value>2</value>
<value>4</value>
<value>5</value>
</property>
</object>
<object name="e">
<property>
<value>5</value>
</property>
</object>
</objects>
When I click expand on the column header, Power Bi doesn't understand that the column may have more than one children, and only expand the ones with 1 child, leaving the others as "Table":
from here, I cannot further expand...
Is this a bug? how can I workaround this?
thanks,
Luca
@Licantrop0
These two links should provide help on the issue of expanding nested tables, please check it out.
https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2014/05/21/expanding-all-columns-in-a-table-in-power-query/
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-expand-all-nested-tables-at-once-table-expandtableco...
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Hi @Fowmy, thanks for pointing me into the right direction.
The recursive function is the right approach (even thou in my case there are just 2 levels), but I don't understand how to apply it into my sample data, can you help me?
@Licantrop0
Can you share a sample file the same structure to test?
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