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Expanding Events by Date
Hello people,
Let's suppose we have some events with an Initial Date and a Final Date. If the Final Date ends on a different day from the Initial Day, I would like to create a row for each different day.
Below is an example to make it clearer:
Is there any way to do this? Let's consider that we don't have just 4 IDs (events), we will have new events as time goes by, this image is just an example.
Best regards.
Hi Mentzer
You can use Power Query Editor to transform the table. Steps are:
1. Add a Date list column to have all dates from initial date to final date on each row.
2. Expand above list column to new rows.
3. Add a new Initial Date column
4. Add a new Final Date column
5. Select only ID, New Initial Date and New Final Date columns and remove other columns.
Full code:
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("bc1BCsAgDETRq0jWgsmoLWbXAxS6F+9/jUakBWu383lJrSTkCQwEQYjiRDRvmou7zjXsKrmH5ithzUUZr4tBgs1QKzG5Y6j4UaxiiieFPoM18fMrTSfZwK8Zc//Ubg==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t, #"Initial Date" = _t, #"Final Date" = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ID", Int64.Type}, {"Initial Date", type datetime}, {"Final Date", type datetime}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Date", each List.Dates(Date.From([Initial Date]), Duration.Days(Date.From([Final Date]) - Date.From([Initial Date])) + 1, #duration(1,0,0,0))), #"Expanded Date" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Added Custom", "Date"), #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Expanded Date", "New Initial Date", each if Date.From([Initial Date]) = [Date] then [Initial Date] else [Date] & #time(0,0,0)), #"Added Custom2" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom1", "New Final Date", each List.Min({[Date] & #time(23,59,59), [Final Date]})), #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom2",{"ID", "New Initial Date", "New Final Date"}) in #"Removed Other Columns"Best Regards,
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Hi Mentzer
You can use Power Query Editor to transform the table. Steps are:
1. Add a Date list column to have all dates from initial date to final date on each row.
2. Expand above list column to new rows.
3. Add a new Initial Date column
4. Add a new Final Date column
5. Select only ID, New Initial Date and New Final Date columns and remove other columns.
Full code:
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("bc1BCsAgDETRq0jWgsmoLWbXAxS6F+9/jUakBWu383lJrSTkCQwEQYjiRDRvmou7zjXsKrmH5ithzUUZr4tBgs1QKzG5Y6j4UaxiiieFPoM18fMrTSfZwK8Zc//Ubg==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t, #"Initial Date" = _t, #"Final Date" = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ID", Int64.Type}, {"Initial Date", type datetime}, {"Final Date", type datetime}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Date", each List.Dates(Date.From([Initial Date]), Duration.Days(Date.From([Final Date]) - Date.From([Initial Date])) + 1, #duration(1,0,0,0))), #"Expanded Date" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Added Custom", "Date"), #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Expanded Date", "New Initial Date", each if Date.From([Initial Date]) = [Date] then [Initial Date] else [Date] & #time(0,0,0)), #"Added Custom2" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom1", "New Final Date", each List.Min({[Date] & #time(23,59,59), [Final Date]})), #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom2",{"ID", "New Initial Date", "New Final Date"}) in #"Removed Other Columns"Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing
If this post helps, please Accept it as Solution to help other members find it.