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5 years ago
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How to Merge Ignoring the NULL cells

This may be a simple one but I am pretty new to M/DAX. I have a dataset like below. I want to merge the columns but when I do that with a Delimeter or Space or etc., It is giving that character even ...
  • Fowmy's avatar
    5 years ago

    Anonymous 

    You first Merge the selected columns then, go into the codes of the New Column and add the following:

    Text.Combine(List.Select(
    {[Col 1], [Col 2], [Col 3], [Col 4], [Col 5], [Col 6], [Col 7], [Col 8], [Col 9]},each _<>""), "|")

    You paste the below code in a new blank query in the advanced editor and check the step.

     

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcnRyVtJRAiInZxcIw9XNHcKAIHcPT6VYnWgQszglrTgFRBcXg0mIgnIgLoIwK5ViYwE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Col 1" = _t, #"Col 2" = _t, #"Col 3" = _t, #"Col 4" = _t, #"Col 5" = _t, #"Col 6" = _t, #"Col 7" = _t, #"Col 8" = _t, #"Col 9" = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Col 1", type text}, {"Col 2", type text}, {"Col 3", type text}, {"Col 4", type text}, {"Col 5", type text}, {"Col 6", type text}, {"Col 7", type text}, {"Col 8", type text}, {"Col 9", type text}}),
        #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each  Text.Combine(List.Select(
    {[Col 1], [Col 2], [Col 3], [Col 4], [Col 5], [Col 6], [Col 7], [Col 8], [Col 9]},each _<>""), "|"))
    in
        #"Added Custom"