Extracting multiple values from one cell into new table and create filtering base on that

[alocasia]

Hi,

I have Orders data table whith two types of shippment and multiple customers in one cell:

Order ID	Local Shipping	International Shipping
xxx_1	AAA, CCC, DDD	AAA, BBB
xxx_2	BBB, EEE	BBB

What we want to achieve is to split clients to another table based on Order ID and type of Shippment like in the example bellow:

Order ID	Client name	Shippment
xxx_1	AAA	Local
xxx_1	CCC	Local
xxx_1	DDD	Local
xxx_1	AAA	International
xxx_1	BBB	International
xxx_2	BBB	Local
xxx_2	EEE	Local
xxx_2	BBB	International

What we want to achieve is filter data by customers and type of shippment, e.g.

BBB with international shipment

- xxx_1

- xxx_2

BBB with local shipment:

- xxx_1

Is this possible to implement in PowerBI?

I'm quite new to PowerBI, so any advices will be helpful.

Thanks in advance!

[Arul · Accepted solution]

@alocasia ,

We can do it in Power Query Editor,

1. Split this local shipping column using split by delimiter option.

2.Follow the same steps for International shipping column as well. You would get this result.

3. Select local shipping and international shipping then do unpivot columns.

4. Then select all the columns and remove duplicates,

Thanks,

Arul 

[KeyurPatel14 · Accepted solution]

Hi @alocasia ,
Try the below M Code:

let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8i9KSS1S8HRR0lHyyU9OzFEIzsgsKMjMSwcKeOaVpBblJZZk5uchS8TqRCtVVFTEGwKVODo66ig4OzvrKLi4uMD4Tk5OcEVGQEEgX0fB1dUVwlSKjQUA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#" " = _t, #"(blank)" = _t, #"(blank).1" = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{" ", type text}, {"(blank)", type text}, {"(blank).1", type text}}),
#"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Changed Type", [PromoteAllScalars=true]),
#"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Promoted Headers",{{"Order ID", type text}, {"Local Shipping", type text}, {"International Shipping", type text}}),
#"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.ExpandListColumn(Table.TransformColumns(#"Changed Type1", {{"Local Shipping", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(",", QuoteStyle.Csv), let itemType = (type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true] in type {itemType}}}), "Local Shipping"),
#"Changed Type2" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Local Shipping", type text}}),
#"Split Column by Delimiter1" = Table.ExpandListColumn(Table.TransformColumns(#"Changed Type2", {{"International Shipping", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(",", QuoteStyle.Csv), let itemType = (type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true] in type {itemType}}}), "International Shipping"),
#"Changed Type3" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter1",{{"International Shipping", type text}}),
#"Unpivoted Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Changed Type3", {"Order ID"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
#"Removed Duplicates" = Table.Distinct(#"Unpivoted Columns")
in
#"Removed Duplicates"

If this helps you then give it a kudos and accept this as a solution.

[Arul · Accepted solution]

@alocasia ,

We can do it in Power Query Editor,

1. Split this local shipping column using split by delimiter option.

2.Follow the same steps for International shipping column as well. You would get this result.

3. Select local shipping and international shipping then do unpivot columns.

4. Then select all the columns and remove duplicates,

Thanks,

Arul 

[alocasia]

Thanks! That's really helpful. Is there any option to Split customers in one value in filter so it doesn't show duplicates?

[Arul]

@alocasia ,

I think there is some additional spaces added, to remove that do the follow,

1. In power query editor, select the customer column and go to transform tab .

2. Go to format and do trim and clean.

Thanks,

Arul

[alocasia]

Thank you once again! Now it works properly 🙂