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Help flattening data
I know somehow this data needs a pivot, but I just need some guidance as I do not have much experience with pivoting data. This is a sample of data coming into a table in our Power BI report. It has been filtered by an employee, year, and month. What I need is a table that has only the DATE as a record and then columns for Task Number and Instance Entered.
So for example, in this data listed, there would be ONE record for each data: 4/3/2023, Task 1, 1; 4/4/2023 Task 1, 1, Task 2, 3...
| EmpID | DateRecorded | TaskNumber | InstancesSubmitted |
| 264 | 4/3/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/4/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/4/2023 | Task 2 | 3 |
| 264 | 4/6/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/10/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/11/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/12/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/13/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/17/2023 | Task 2 | 7 |
| 264 | 4/18/2023 | Task 2 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/18/2023 | Task 2 | 6 |
| 264 | 4/19/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/19/2023 | Task 2 | 4 |
| 264 | 4/20/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/20/2023 | Task 2 | 2 |
| 264 | 4/24/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/24/2023 | Task 2 | 2 |
| 264 | 4/25/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/25/2023 | Task 2 | 3 |
| 264 | 4/26/2023 | Task 1 | 1 |
| 264 | 4/26/2023 | Task 2 | 5 |
| 264 | 4/27/2023 | Task 2 | 1 |
Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.
2 Replies
You can use the Matrix visual. Put the date in the columns and the task in the rows, then insidents in values
Yes tried that, but there are two other tables that need to relate to this table. There is a main Employee Table where the EmpID comes from. Then a Details table (the one I need to flatten) that is related by the EmpID. Then I have an Hours Worked table (related by that EmpID and date) and a Ratings table (related by the same Emp ID and date). When I include hours or ratings, there are way too many columns (hours and ratings for each Task).
