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Francesco
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How to put in order column sequence in a table ?

Hi,

 

using UNION(table1, table2) I noticed that if columns are not on the same order ... it is a problem, bacause union mixes values of columns with the same name but in a different order.

Is there a way to change the columns' order in a table? It seems it is fixed. 

 

Thanks a lot!

Francesco

 

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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@Francesco

You can try SELECTCOLUMNS.

 

Table =
UNION (
    SELECTCOLUMNS ( Table1, "column1", Table1[Column1], "column2", Table1[Column2] ),
    SELECTCOLUMNS ( Table2, "column1", Table2[Column1], "column2", Table2[Column2] )
)

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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@Francesco

You can try SELECTCOLUMNS.

 

Table =
UNION (
    SELECTCOLUMNS ( Table1, "column1", Table1[Column1], "column2", Table1[Column2] ),
    SELECTCOLUMNS ( Table2, "column1", Table2[Column1], "column2", Table2[Column2] )
)

have the same problem as @Francesco ,

thank you @@Eric_Zhang ,you give a good solution.

Phil_Seamark
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Francesco

 

Have you played with the "Sort by Column" feature?

 

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-sort-by-column/


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