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Promoting a single row
I am pulling several poorly formatted Excel files into PowerBi, these are pulled directly from a a machine so the formatting must remain the same.
The table looks like the below:
| Start Time | End Time | Duration | ||
| 14:00:00 | 15:00:00 | 01:00:00 | ||
| Product | Water | |||
| Amount added | 100 |
I need to create a conditional column for the start and end time of water so I can see it on a gantt chart or similar. Since they are not on the same row, I cannot do this.
I know how to do this via indexes, however since there are around 50 different examples of this, I don't think doing this is feasible. Are there any other methods I could use to achieve the result I want?
Hi Anonymous , please paste this query in your advanced editor & check if it works according to your requirement.
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjSxMjAAIiUdJUNTOFMBig0MoUKxOtFwwYCi/JTS5BIQMzyxJLUILIyswDE3vzSvRCExJSU1BcQ3BJupFBsLAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Start Time" = _t, #"End Time" = _t, #" " = _t, #" .1" = _t, Duration = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Start Time", type time}, {"End Time", type time}, {" ", type text}, {" .1", type text}, {"Duration", type time}}),
#"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Changed Type", List.Distinct(#"Changed Type"[#" "]), " ", " .1"),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Pivoted Column",{" "}),
#"Filled Down" = Table.FillDown(#"Removed Columns",{"Duration"}),
#"Filled Up1" = Table.FillUp(#"Filled Down",{"Duration", "End Time", "Start Time"}),
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Filled Up1", each ([#"Product "] = "Water"))
in
#"Filtered Rows"
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Anonymous , can provide some kind of output you are looking for.
Thanks for your reply, ideally I would like the end result to look like this:
Start Time End Time Product Amount Added Duration 14:00:00 15:00:00 Water 100 01:00:00 However if it looked like this ( this is what I was going for with the conditional columns), this would also work.
Start Time End Time Water Start Time Water End Time Duration Water Amount Added 14:00:00 15:00:00 14:00:00 15:00:00 1:00:00 100
Hi Anonymous , please paste this query in your advanced editor & check if it works according to your requirement.
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjSxMjAAIiUdJUNTOFMBig0MoUKxOtFwwYCi/JTS5BIQMzyxJLUILIyswDE3vzSvRCExJSU1BcQ3BJupFBsLAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Start Time" = _t, #"End Time" = _t, #" " = _t, #" .1" = _t, Duration = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Start Time", type time}, {"End Time", type time}, {" ", type text}, {" .1", type text}, {"Duration", type time}}),
#"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Changed Type", List.Distinct(#"Changed Type"[#" "]), " ", " .1"),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Pivoted Column",{" "}),
#"Filled Down" = Table.FillDown(#"Removed Columns",{"Duration"}),
#"Filled Up1" = Table.FillUp(#"Filled Down",{"Duration", "End Time", "Start Time"}),
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Filled Up1", each ([#"Product "] = "Water"))
in
#"Filtered Rows"
