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spoony
Helper I
9 years ago
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Query editor replacing values based on another column

I can't seem to get this to work in query editor:   let Source = Excel.Workbook #promote header = .... #"Replaced OTH" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"promote header"," ","OTH",Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Ge...
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  • MarcelBeug's avatar
    MarcelBeug
    9 years ago

    You are right. I was confusing Table.ReplaceValues with Table.TransformColumns. :smileyembarrassed:

    My solution works though, but the code you are looking for:

     

        #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced OTH",each [Gender],each if [Surname] = "Manly" then "Male" else [Gender],Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Gender"})

     

    Edit: it seems you switched "old"  and "new"  in your cide.

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MarcelBeug
Community Champion
9 years ago

You are right. I was confusing Table.ReplaceValues with Table.TransformColumns. :smileyembarrassed:

My solution works though, but the code you are looking for:

 

    #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced OTH",each [Gender],each if [Surname] = "Manly" then "Male" else [Gender],Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Gender"})

 

Edit: it seems you switched "old"  and "new"  in your cide.

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Thanks for this code :):

 

 #"Replaced 68 to 680" =

 Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced H1353",each [Payroll Reference Number],each if [Reporting Unit] = "Store5" and [Payroll Reference Number] = "68" then "680" else [Payroll Reference Number],Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Payroll Reference Number"}),

I wanted to ammend an individual Payroll Number, based on the Store Name!

Experienced the issue whereby two people from different stored were given the same payroll number. 

However, i did not want to create a new Payroll Number column, as most other people suggested.

 

So once again, thanks :)