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Anonymous
7 years agoNot applicable
Index Column By Category
Hi all, I have the following column Category Bear Bear Pig Pig Parrot Parrot And I want to add an index by category, like this: Category Index Bear 1 Bear 1 Pig 2 Pig 2 Par...
- 7 years ago
Hi Anonymous ,
Please refer to the following M query:
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WckpNLFKK1UFiBGSmo9KJRUX5JSjMWAA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Category = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Category", type text}}), #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"Category"}, {{"Category Index", each _, type table [Category=text]}}), #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Index", 1, 1), #"Expanded Category Index" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Added Index", "Category Index", {"Category"}, {"Category Index.Category"}), #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Expanded Category Index",{{"Index", type text}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Category Index", each [Category Index.Category] &" " &[Index]), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Category", "Category Index.Category", "Index"}) in #"Removed Columns"The result will like below:
Best Regards,
Teige
Zubair_Muhammad
Community Champion
7 years agoHi Anonymous
Using Query Editor..
You can Groupby the Category column >>> then add an index Column>>>then expand it
This way same category items will have same index number