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Problem using the PATH function
- 7 years ago
You can also directly add a PATH using "M"/Power Query.
Please see the attached file's Query Editor as well
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjRR0lEyNDRSitWJVjIGsU3ATENDINsYwjRGMM2MEGxDc5ByM4hWIyNDJJ4FnBMLAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [EmployeeKey = _t, ParentEmployeeKey = _t]), ChangedType = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"EmployeeKey", type text}, {"ParentEmployeeKey", type text}}), NewStep=Table.AddColumn(ChangedType, "Path", each let myfunction=(myvalue)=> let mylist=Table.SelectRows(ChangedType,each [EmployeeKey]=myvalue)[ParentEmployeeKey], result=Text.Combine(mylist) in if result= null or result ="" then "" else if @myfunction(result)=null or @myfunction(result)="" then result else result & "|" & @ myfunction(result) in Text.Combine(List.Reverse(List.RemoveItems({[EmployeeKey]}&{[ParentEmployeeKey]}&Text.Split(myfunction([ParentEmployeeKey]),"|"),{"",null})),"|")) in NewStep - 7 years ago
Hi Zubair_Muhammad ,
This is perfect, but it seems to have one flaw. If the table is too big I get this error
Expression.Error: Evaluation resulted in a stack overflow and cannot continue.
When I limit the table it works fine, but if you know what causes the error I would like to know :-)
BR
Esben
Sorry for not being more precise about my problem.
In my case, I have thousands of parent/child relations and not only one as in my example.
This means that I need to figure out which one is a top parent before I can put it in the ROW command (I need a variable containing "121" and not hardcoded)
Beside that this approach is failing with "Each table argument of 'UNION' must have the same number of columns."
I expect that "Test200InserVal" is my current table which is currently missing the top parent, right?
BR
Esben
eacy Yes, that is the table which is missing your top parent in it. So you want to derive that dynamically... gotta you !!
Could you please let me know what you want as Top Parent, providing some appropriate test data and expected top parent key out of it.