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Reference a a column for a list in Power Query
Dear All,
I have the following table:
Table1
| CODE | VALUE |
| 724 | 1.000 |
323 | 500 |
null | 200 |
| 455 | 300 |
| null | 1.200 |
| 444 | 600 |
| 256 | 700 |
Through the following step in PowerQuery:
= Table.TransformColumns( #"previous step", {{"CODE", (x)=> if x = null then List.Select(List.Distinct( #"previous step"[CODE]), each _<> null) else {x}}})
I achieve the following:
in column CODE, replace "null" with a list of all the distinct codes existent in column CODE except "null".
In this way, instead of nulls, I get a list of the following elements {724, 323, 455, 444, 256}
Now, I have another table with a list of codes:
Table2
| CODE | VALUE |
| 123 | 100 |
829 | 100 |
| 047 | 150 |
| 299 | 300 |
My question is: How do I reference CODE column in Table 2 in the previous step INSTEAD of CODE column in Table1?
Thank you for your time
gianmarco
Dear Ahmedx ,
it seems that your formula si replacing not only the "nulls" in CODE column but all the elements instead.
I think I need to change this formula which i'm actually using:
= Table.TransformColumns( #"previous step", {{"CODE", (x)=> if x = null then List.Select(List.Distinct( #"previous step"[CODE]), each _<> null) else {x}}})
This formula is actually replacing the nulls in code columns with a list of all the CODEs in Code column except null in TABLE1.