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sdjensen
10 years agoSolution Sage
Power Query Join tables
Hi, I need some assistance with joining 2 tables in Query Editor. What I want is for each row in table 2 to return rows from table 1 where Table1.”Finanskonto Nummer” >= Table2.”Totaling.1” and T...
- 10 years ago
Okay I got a working solution now... thanks to ImkeF and Greg_Deckler for all their time and help.
@ImkeF - it's strange that your trick doesn't work for you it worked for me? I would really like to accept your last code as a solution, but I haven't tested it, but I think our solutions are very close to each other.
this is my final code:
let // 1 til 1 relation for konti af type "konto" Source1 = Table.SelectColumns( Table.SelectRows( Finanskonto, each [FinanskontoTypeSort] = 0 ), {"FinanskontoKey"} ), Source1AddFinansKontoKeyIncluded = Table.AddColumn(Source1, "Included.FinanskontoKey", each [FinanskontoKey]), // M til M relation for konti af type "sum" og "til-sum" Source2 = Table.SelectColumns( Table.SelectRows( Finanskonto, each List.Contains({2, 4}, [FinanskontoTypeSort]) ), {"FinanskontoKey", "Regnskab", "Finanskonto Nummer", "Totaling"} ), Source2SplitByDelimiter = Table.SplitColumn( Source2, "Totaling", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("|", QuoteStyle.Csv) ), Source2UnpivotedColumns = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns( Source2SplitByDelimiter, {"FinanskontoKey", "Regnskab", "Finanskonto Nummer"}, "Attribute", "Totaling" ), Source2SplitByDelimiter2 = Table.SplitColumn( Source2UnpivotedColumns, "Totaling", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("..", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Totaling.1", "Totaling.2"} ), Source2ReplaceNulls = Table.ReplaceValue(Source2SplitByDelimiter2, null, each _[Totaling.1], Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Totaling.2"} ), Source2AddedTotaling1Idx = Table.Join( Source2ReplaceNulls, {"Regnskab", "Totaling.1"}, Table.PrefixColumns(Table.SelectColumns( Finanskonto, {"Regnskab", "Finanskonto Nummer", "Index"} ), "Idx1"), {"Idx1.Regnskab", "Idx1.Finanskonto Nummer"} ), Source2AddedTotaling2Idx = Table.Join( Source2AddedTotaling1Idx, {"Regnskab", "Totaling.2"}, Table.PrefixColumns(Table.SelectColumns( Finanskonto, {"Regnskab", "Finanskonto Nummer", "Index"} ), "Idx2"), {"Idx2.Regnskab", "Idx2.Finanskonto Nummer"} ), Source2TotalingList = Table.AddColumn ( Source2AddedTotaling2Idx, "TotalingList", each {[Idx1.Index]..[Idx2.Index]} ), Source2ExpandedTotalList = Table.ExpandListColumn(Source2TotalingList, "TotalingList"), Source2TableJoin = Table.Join( Source2ExpandedTotalList, {"Regnskab", "TotalingList"}, Table.PrefixColumns( Table.SelectColumns(Finanskonto, {"Regnskab", "Index", "FinanskontoKey"} ), "Included"), {"Included.Regnskab", "Included.Index"} ), Source2RemoveOtherColumns = Table.SelectColumns(Source2TableJoin,{"FinanskontoKey", "Included.FinanskontoKey"}), CombineSource1and2 = Table.Combine({Source1AddFinansKontoKeyIncluded, Source2RemoveOtherColumns}) in CombineSource1and2
ImkeF
10 years agoCommunity Champion
Great - that looks neat and clean :-)
Yes, our solutions are quite similar - you managed with one pivoting-less.
But watch out: Omitting the column names will only work if the Totalling with the most |-signs sits in the first row of your table!
sdjensen
10 years agoSolution Sage
Thank you for that last tip, I will have to handle that.