How to link related items?

[mraka9]

Greeting,
I need help regarding the table below.
I have a column:
Product A i
Product B.
I want to get the result for Product C.
I need in Power Query that based on Product B, Product A is searched and all sales items are added to Product B.
Examples:
Find Mobile-12 where it is in Product A and summarize all related items in Product C, which are Mobile-24 and Mobile-50.
I need a formula, not a join of tables, because there is a large amount of data.
Thank you very much in advance

Product A	Product B	Product C
Mobile-24	Mobile-12	Mobile-24;Mobile-50
Car-13	Car-7	Car-10;Car-13
Mobile-12	Mobile-24
Car-7	Car-10
House-30	House-22
Car-7	Car-13
House-22	House-30
Mobile-12	Mobile-50

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @mraka9 

You can put the following code in Advanced Editor in power query:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8s1PysxJ1TUyUdKBsQ2NlGJ1opWcE4t0DY2BwiCGOVgIoUAHSSNMsTlUraEBWMgjv7Q4VdfYACgKYRoZYSo1RlJqZARXamyAyz5ToEwsAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Product A" = _t, #"Product B" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Product A", type text}, {"Product B", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", (x)=>Text.Combine(Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type",(y)=>y[Product A]=x[Product B] )[Product B] ,",")       )
in
    #"Added Custom"

Output:

Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

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[mraka9]

The solution is great! I don't understand why it doesn't work in my file.
Thanks a lot in advance!

[Anonymous]

Hi @mraka9 

You can try the following ways:

1.Delete "each" from your code.

2.Add a blank step:

then copy the sample code to the step

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", (x)=>Text.Combine(Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type",(y)=>y[Product A]=x[Product B] )[Product B] ,","))

if the table name or column name is different from yours, you need to change it.

Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

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[mraka9]

Unfortunately, the data is being processed for a long time, but there are no results. Anyway, I'll accept your solution as it's great, although I can't get it to work on my base. Thanks again