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MFasnacht
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Extract records from a list to table

Hi Everyone

 

I am loading data from the web through a REST API to Power BI Desktop

Now the data is loaded but shown as records in a list. When clicking on a record, it drills down and shows one entry in one row in a table. I can safe every record as a new query but not all in one step.
I want to have the data extracted from the records and to be shown in a table.

In the screenshots you can see how the data is shown as records and how the result should be. 


Could anyone help me fixing this?

 

Thank you for every answer. 

 

 


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v-sihou-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@MFasnacht

 

@Greg_Deckler is correct. You can directly do it on GUI.

 

Just click "To Table".

 

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Then you just need to expand those columns.

 

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Regards,

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v-sihou-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@MFasnacht

 

@Greg_Deckler is correct. You can directly do it on GUI.

 

Just click "To Table".

 

55.PNG

 

Then you just need to expand those columns.

 

Capture.PNG

 

Regards,

Anonymous
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Hi, I had the same problem and this solution has worked and given me all the columns I wanted in a tabular format. However, all the columns have 'Column1.' appended to their original names. I have aboout 100 such columns and would really appreciate a quicker way of getting the original column names back. Thanks, Alisha

Old one, but it may help somebody: 
At the Applied steps, right click on the Expanded Column1..., and delete "Column1" from here.

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Worked very well, thank you very much! 

Works well but ony with uniform records

I have list of records like

{ [Name="Henn", Age = 64], [Name="Peeter", ShueSize=27] }

how to convert into table

({Name, Age, ShueSize}, {{"Henn", 64, null}, {"Ants", null, 27}})

Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

I believe what you want is Table.FromList:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt260762.aspx

 



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