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CSUbux8
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Group data by column headers in data source

I am trying to create groups using coumn headers if possible.

 

I have a single row of data points for each CustomerID with many column headers. I would like to create some "buckets" or groups of products but the data source i have does not give me the ability to create a relationship to another table with the buckets and what products fall into those groups/buckets of products. For example:

                          Total   Sales         Product 1        Product 2        Product 3        Product 4

Customer 1        $xxxxx                     x                                               x

Customer 2        $xxxxx                                              x                      x                       x

 

Can i create groups of products using the column headers of products?

 

Tech Products = Product 1 and Product 2

Farming Products = Product 3 and Product 4

 

Hope that makes sense 🙂

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dax
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Hi @CSUbux8 ,

You could try to unpivot column , then add custom column to group data, then you could get the group, and you could put this column in "Column field" of Matrix.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WSlTSUTI0AhJGxkAChM2VYnWilZJAPBDX0BAkCSLMDZRiYwE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [name = _t, p1 = _t, p2 = _t, p3 = _t, p4 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"name", type text}, {"p1", Int64.Type}, {"p2", Int64.Type}, {"p3", Int64.Type}, {"p4", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Unpivoted Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Changed Type", {"name"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Unpivoted Columns", "Custom", each if [Attribute] ="p1" or [Attribute] ="p2" then "g1" else "g2")
in
    #"Added Custom"

Best Regards,
Zoe Zhi

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VasTg
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@CSUbux8 

 

If you want to group values, you could create them with right click on value-> create group.

 

If you expect to show the group in matrix, please refer to this post.

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Group-Measures/m-p/852275

 

If this helps, mark it as a solution

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