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Question on Conditional Column as Parameter
I am working on a skillset survey, and the rating is know of, beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert, and I have used a conditional column to assign values 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. I would like to kee...
That is exactly what I was hoping to do 😄
Can I perhaps trouble you to explain me how to set up the query for future use?
Thank you very much!
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("ndBNDsIgEAXgqzSsu9IT+LcwjSdouiDlqSR0aCqi3l7SoDKkbFywmIR578u0rTjp/iphRC328DB2HEAuTFV8DdlHZc+fcaO8pB4qjltcNBGm70JXt6KB1xSmnaXb3bjw/8U3j+QwDVBaOvCQrC0BsIaIrlZ/sjNARp9jOf6HSLBZStaxUMvx6yL+8BwxubK1fPU5lNPLx050C3aGCBXdGw==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Name = _t, Department = _t, #"Project IPMA - A" = _t, #"Project IPMA - B" = _t, #"Project IPMA - C" = _t, #"Project IPMA - D" = _t, #"Project PMP " = _t, #"Project ITSM" = _t, #"Project Scrum" = _t, #"Project Prince 2 - Princess" = _t, #"Project Prince 2 - Change Management" = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Name", type text}, {"Department", type text}, {"Project IPMA - A", type text}, {"Project IPMA - B", type text}, {"Project IPMA - C", type text}, {"Project IPMA - D", type text}, {"Project PMP ", type text}, {"Project ITSM", type any}, {"Project Scrum", type text}, {"Project Prince 2 - Princess", type any}, {"Project Prince 2 - Change Management", type any}}),
#"Unpivoted Only Selected Columns" = Table.Unpivot(#"Changed Type", {"Project IPMA - A", "Project IPMA - B", "Project IPMA - C", "Project IPMA - D", "Project PMP ", "Project ITSM", "Project Scrum", "Project Prince 2 - Princess", "Project Prince 2 - Change Management"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Unpivoted Only Selected Columns",{{"Attribute", "Project"}}),
#"Uppercased Text" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Renamed Columns",{{"Value", Text.Upper, type text}}),
#"Added Conditional Column" = Table.AddColumn(#"Uppercased Text", "Rank", each if Text.Contains([Value], "KNOW OF") then 1 else if Text.Contains([Value], "BEGINNER") then 2 else if Text.Contains([Value], "INTERMEDIATE") then 3 else if Text.Contains([Value], "ADVANCED") then 4 else if Text.Contains([Value], "EXPERT") then 5 else null),
#"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Conditional Column",{{"Rank", Int64.Type}})
in
#"Changed Type1"
Anonymous,
Copy this query and paste to the advanced editor in Power Query so you can see the step by step queries
And just drag again the fields according to your needs.
Enjoy your Power BI journey!