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Pivot unpivot Timestamp Values
- 1 year ago
Hi Anonymous ,
Try the following code:
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMtY3NNY3MjAyVTA0sjIwACKFAF8lHSXn/NyCxLxKQyDTQM9IKVaHVkqNkJWamGJXakq0UkyFpsSbianUCEkpkqdw+olUlUbIKnE4FCOcCKhEtt2IaB/hURkLAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Date = _t, Company = _t, Value = _t]), #"Changed Type with Locale" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source, {{"Date", type datetime}, {"Value", type number}}, "en-us"), #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type with Locale", {"Date"}, {{"Count", each _, type table [Date=nullable datetime, Company=nullable text, Value=nullable number]}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Custom", each Table.AddIndexColumn ( [Count], "Index",1)), #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom", {"Company", "Value", "Index"}, {"Custom.Company", "Custom.Value", "Custom.Index"}), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Expanded Custom",{"Count"}), #"Grouped Rows1" = Table.Group(#"Removed Columns", {"Date", "Custom.Index"}, {{"Count", each _, type table [Date=nullable datetime, Custom.Company=text, Custom.Value=number, Custom.Index=number]}}), #"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Grouped Rows1", {{"Date", type text}}, "pt-PT"), List.Distinct(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Grouped Rows1", {{"Date", type text}}, "pt-PT")[Date]), "Date", "Count"), #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Pivoted Column", "Custom", each Table.FromColumns( (try Table.ToColumns([#"13/03/2025 12:00:00"]) otherwise Table.ToColumns( #table({"Date"}, {{null}}))) & (try Table.ToColumns([#"13/02/2025 12:45:00"]) otherwise Table.ToColumns( #table({"Date"}, {{null}}))) & (try Table.ToColumns([#"13/02/2025 12:55:00"]) otherwise Table.ToColumns( #table({"Date"}, {{null}}))) & (try Table.ToColumns([#"13/03/2025 13:00:00"]) otherwise Table.ToColumns( #table({"Date"}, {{null}}))) & (try Table.ToColumns([#"13/03/2025 13:25:00"]) otherwise Table.ToColumns( #table({"Date"}, {{null}}))) & (try Table.ToColumns([#"13/02/2025 13:05:00"]) otherwise Table.ToColumns( #table({"Date"}, {{null}}))) )), #"Removed Columns1" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom1",{"13/03/2025 12:00:00", "13/02/2025 12:45:00", "13/02/2025 12:55:00", "13/03/2025 13:00:00", "13/02/2025 13:05:00", "13/03/2025 13:25:00"}), #"Expanded Custom1" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Columns1", "Custom", {"Column1", "Column2", "Column3", "Column4", "Column5", "Column6", "Column7", "Column8", "Column9", "Column10", "Column11", "Column12", "Column13", "Column14", "Column15", "Column16", "Column17", "Column18", "Column19", "Column20", "Column21", "Column22", "Column23", "Column24"}, {"Column1", "Column2", "Column3", "Column4", "Column5", "Column6", "Column7", "Column8", "Column9", "Column10", "Column11", "Column12", "Column13", "Column14", "Column15", "Column16", "Column17", "Column18", "Column19", "Column20", "Column21", "Column22", "Column23", "Column24"}), #"Removed Columns2" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Expanded Custom1",{"Column4", "Column8", "Column12", "Column16", "Column20", "Column24"}) in #"Removed Columns2"What I'm doing is the following:
- Grouping by the date columns you need
- Adding and index for each of the date/times
- Expanding the index for that group
- Regrouping based on the date and the index
- Making a pivot based on the date
- Adding a custom step to join all the columns of the dates
- Removing the index columns
Once again be carefull because with different dates this will mean that the combination of the steps are not automatic and you need to redo them.
See file attach.
MFelix
Can you please help with how do I get the tables looking like this :
| Date | Company | Value | Date | Company | Value |
| 3/13/2025 12:00:00 PM | Company1 | 0.2 | 3/13/2025 1:00:00 PM | Company1 | 0.5 |
| 3/13/2025 12:00:00 PM | Company1 | 0.2 | 3/13/2025 1:00:00 PM | Company2 | 1.5 |
Hi Anonymous ,
What is the purpose of having the information in PQ like this? If you place the information like this it will be much less flexible and on refresh you will have problems because of the formatting of the new names/ columns.
Do you want to present the data like this on the report?
- Anonymous1 year agoNot applicable
Hi MFelix yes, and the dates will have different dates, time will have only 12,1,2,3,4 etc basically hour difference and not each minute difference. The reason to do this in separate columns is because I need to make a calculated column in Power BI Desktop and check if the "Value" for 12,1,2,3,4 is same then 'ok' else 'not ok' I should be able to filter through the dates.
- MFelix1 year agoSuper User
Hi Anonymous ,
For this I suggest to have a calculation and not a pivot of the columns.
Can you please let me know what is that OK/NOK will be based on? I can try and tell you how to use that calculation. It can be done either in DAX or Power Query.
- Anonymous1 year agoNot applicable
MFelix thank you for helping, So here, the condition I want in PBI Desktop is if Value for 12 pm =1 pm = 2pm then ok else not ok and for this condition the table has to be in converted in this format in PQ
Date Company Value Date Company Value 3/13/2025 12:00:00 PM Company1 0.2 3/13/2025 1:00:00 PM Company1 0.5 3/13/2025 12:00:00 PM Company1 0.2 3/13/2025 1:00:00 PM Company2 1.5