Hierarchy from a list

[MTam]

Hi All,

I have an issue with a hierarchy creation task. There is a list in Excel with two columns. The first one contains Organization IDs, where the first character is the level 1 of hierarchy, the second the level 2, and the last three is the level 3. In the second column there are the names of company divisions, business units, offices, etc. (also there are no logical structure in name, but in this example I used some kind of logic for the better understand).

Organization ID	Name
1000-000	A
1100-000	AA
1100-100	AAA
1100-200	AAB
1200-000	AB
1200-100	ABA
1200-200	ABB
1200-300	ABC
2000-000	D
2100-000	DD
2100-100	DDD
2100-200	DDE

Also from this two columns I would like to create a similar table as this below, where the first three columns contains the names of divisions which are over the lowest one.

Level1	Level2	Level3	Organization ID
A	AA	AAA	1100-100
A	AA	AAB	1100-200
A	AB	ABA	1200-100
A	AB	ABB	1200-200
A	AB	ABC	1200-300
D	DD	DDD	2100-100
D	DD	DDE	2100-200

Is it possible to solve this issue only with Power BI? 

Thanks for your help!

[v-yuezhe-msft · Accepted solution]

@MTam,

You can get the above result by performing several steps in Query Editor of Power BI Desktop(Unpivot column, insert three new columns, add custom column….).


The steps generate the following code in Advanced Editor of the query, you can add a new blank query in Power BI Desktop, copy the following code and paste it to the Advanced Editor of  the blank query, then check the result.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("Tc7BCQAxCETRXjxnQd0K4iZVBPtvI2Ez4By8PPwwa4mp6nNOmnTJdsAKSAxC5KC45NWRoItehC7o6wV9P3ltGhdq0yAxCJGDpmRu", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Organization ID" = _t, Name = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Organization ID", type text}, {"Name", type text}}),
    #"Unpivoted Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Changed Type", {"Name"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Inserted First Characters" = Table.AddColumn(#"Unpivoted Columns", "First Characters", each Text.Start([Name], 1), type text),
    #"Inserted First Characters1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Inserted First Characters", "First Characters.1", each Text.Start([Name], 2), type text),
    #"Inserted First Characters2" = Table.AddColumn(#"Inserted First Characters1", "First Characters.2", each Text.Start([Name], 3), type text),
    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Inserted First Characters2",{{"First Characters", "Level 1"}, {"First Characters.1", "Level 2"}, {"First Characters.2", "Level 3"}}),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Renamed Columns",{"Name"}),
    #"Trimmed Text" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Removed Columns",{{"Level 2", Text.Trim}, {"Level 3", Text.Trim}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Trimmed Text", "Custom", each if [Level 2]=[Level 3] then 1 else 0),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom", each ([Custom] = 0)),
    #"Renamed Columns1" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Filtered Rows",{{"Value", "Organization ID"}}),
    #"Removed Columns1" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Renamed Columns1",{"Attribute", "Custom"}),
    #"Reordered Columns" = Table.ReorderColumns(#"Removed Columns1",{"Level 1", "Level 2", "Level 3", "Organization ID"})
in
    #"Reordered Columns"

Regards,
Lydia