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Matching data within the same appended table
- 6 years ago
Hi Anonymous ,
Assume your data is like that.
We can use merge instead of append to work on it.
M code for your reference.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUfIvSsxLT1WK1YlWMgJyfRKzgZxYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t, County = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ID", Int64.Type}, {"County", type text}}) in #"Changed Type"let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlSK1YGRRjAyFgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ID", Int64.Type}}), #"Merged Queries" = Table.NestedJoin(#"Changed Type", {"ID"}, #"Table (3)", {"ID"}, "Table (3)", JoinKind.LeftOuter), #"Expanded Table (3)" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Merged Queries", "Table (3)", {"County"}, {"Table (3).County"}) in #"Expanded Table (3)"If it doesn't meet your requirement, Kindly share your sample data and excepted result to me if you don't have any Confidential Information. Please upload your files to One Drive and share the link here.
Thanks for your reply VasTg . It looks like it works, however my concern is that I'm creating the report to be used as a standard template across our organization (the data source would be changed at different locations). Please correct me if I'm wrong (as I'm new to Power BI), but wouldn't I have to go through this process every time I add a new data source?
Anonymous
What is the datasource? You should be fine just by pointing to the different file or datasource.All the applied steps will still be there.