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LPenatti
Helper II
Helper II

Group equal rows removing nulls

Dear all

 

I am trying to group some rows of my data based on the first two columns, Index and Account.Name, where the value on another columns is null. The result I want is to avoid null values on the last 2 columns, is it possible to be done in power query?

 

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OwenAuger
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@LPenatti 

You can do this using Group By in the Power Query interface.

 

You just have to choose an arbitrary aggregation for the Customer Care Manager & Customer Support Coordinator columns (in case there are multiple values for a given Index/Account.Name combination, which I imagine shouldn't happen).

 

In my example I used Min, which automatically ignores nulls using the List.Min function.

 

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Here is my M code, including creating the table. The relevant step is #"Grouped Rows".

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlDSUXIuLS7Jz00tUjAEcZx9wbRSrA4WWRA/2BnIBMkaIssaQfUawfRiyEL1GoFljZBljRGyxkqxsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Index = _t, Account.Name = _t, #"Customer Care Manager" = _t, #"Customer Support Coordinator" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Index", Int64.Type}, {"Account.Name", type text}, {"Customer Care Manager", type text}, {"Customer Support Coordinator", type text}}),
    OriginalTable = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type","",null,Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Customer Care Manager", "Customer Support Coordinator"}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(OriginalTable, {"Index", "Account.Name"}, {{"Customer Care Manager", each List.Min([Customer Care Manager]), type nullable text}, {"Customer Support Coordinator", each List.Min([Customer Support Coordinator]), type nullable text}})
in
    #"Grouped Rows"

 

Regards,

Owen


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LPenatti
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@OwenAuger It worked like a charm, thank you!

OwenAuger
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@LPenatti 

You can do this using Group By in the Power Query interface.

 

You just have to choose an arbitrary aggregation for the Customer Care Manager & Customer Support Coordinator columns (in case there are multiple values for a given Index/Account.Name combination, which I imagine shouldn't happen).

 

In my example I used Min, which automatically ignores nulls using the List.Min function.

 

image.png

 

Here is my M code, including creating the table. The relevant step is #"Grouped Rows".

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlDSUXIuLS7Jz00tUjAEcZx9wbRSrA4WWRA/2BnIBMkaIssaQfUawfRiyEL1GoFljZBljRGyxkqxsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Index = _t, Account.Name = _t, #"Customer Care Manager" = _t, #"Customer Support Coordinator" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Index", Int64.Type}, {"Account.Name", type text}, {"Customer Care Manager", type text}, {"Customer Support Coordinator", type text}}),
    OriginalTable = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type","",null,Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Customer Care Manager", "Customer Support Coordinator"}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(OriginalTable, {"Index", "Account.Name"}, {{"Customer Care Manager", each List.Min([Customer Care Manager]), type nullable text}, {"Customer Support Coordinator", each List.Min([Customer Support Coordinator]), type nullable text}})
in
    #"Grouped Rows"

 

Regards,

Owen


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