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Hi everyone,
I've got a table that represents the hours of work of some employees.
It contains the name of the employee, the start date and time and the end date and time:
My intent is to duplicate each row to obtain a row containing the starting date and a row containing the ending date of each employee, something like this:
Because my intent is to create a relation between Table.DateStart and the Calendar Table. Do you know how can I do it, using Power Query? Thank you so much.
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So before merging column create conditional column to check if DataStart <> DataEnd if true then merge : DataStart & "|" & DataEnd else null
And now split this conditional column !
In Power Query :
- Merge DataStart and DataEnd into one column with pipe ("|") delimiter for example
- Split this column on row (not column)
You should get what you want
@freginier thank you so much, it works!
But I have another problem: if I wanted to "split" only the rows where DataStart is different from DataEnd?
The ideal result would be this:
Thanks.
So before merging column create conditional column to check if DataStart <> DataEnd if true then merge : DataStart & "|" & DataEnd else null
And now split this conditional column !
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