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moizsherwani
Continued Contributor
8 years agoParent-Child Hierarchy - Highest Parent (using Power Query not DAX)
Hello PBI Forum, So my issue is as follow, I have a parent child relationship as given below and I need (within Power Query and not DAX) a way to find out the highest parent of any child Team...
- 8 years ago
you just need to change the data types then like this:
let Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Hierarchy"]}[Content], ChangedType = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Team ID", type text}, {"Parent ID", type text}}), ListTeamID = List.Buffer( ChangedType[Team ID] ), ListParentID = List.Buffer( ChangedType[Parent ID] ), fnGetHighestParent = (n as text) as text => let PosOfParent = List.PositionOf( ListTeamID, n ), ParID = ListParentID{PosOfParent} in if ParID = null then ListTeamID{PosOfParent} else @fnGetHighestParent(ListParentID{PosOfParent}), FinalTable = Table.AddColumn( ChangedType, "HighestParent", each fnGetHighestParent( [Team ID] ), type text) in FinalTable
moizsherwani
Continued Contributor
8 years agoThanks for your reply. The issue is that unlike the example in reality there maybe upto 6 levels of children so your solution may not be feasible. Thoughts?
LivioLanzo
Solution Sage
8 years agomoizsherwani As far as I know, my code should work on your real dataset
could you post a dataset on which it does not work ?