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shuhn1229
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Regarding Unpivot Table

Hi,

 

Pretty simple question, I have a subset of my data that looks like this:

 

Activity 1Activity 2Activity 3
1/20/20211/19/202112/29/1988

 

I want to use the data as part of a Gannt chart or timeline visual, so I need all of the dates stacked into one column, as per the below:

 

Activity 11/20/2021
Activity 21/19/2021
Activity 312/29/1988

 

These data are located in a sharepoint. When I select the columns I want to transform and then click "unpivot selected columns" I get the error below:

 

 

DataSource.Error: We couldn't parse OData response result.  Error: A value without a type name was found and no expected type is available. When the model is specified, each value in the payload must have a type which can be either specified in the payload, explicitly by the caller or implicitly inferred from the parent value.
Details:
    DataSourceKind=SharePoint
    DataSourcePath=https://xxx

 

 

Any ideas how to resolve this? Would it be helpful to have a transform step to copy the data I want to visualize to a new table stored within BI, and then only pivot that? How would I accomplish this?

 

Thank you!

Steve

  • I figured this out. It had to do with the presence of cells containing records. I created a duplicate of the list and removed the columns with records, and used that duplicate to unpivot. It is working.

     

    Steve

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  • I figured this out. It had to do with the presence of cells containing records. I created a duplicate of the list and removed the columns with records, and used that duplicate to unpivot. It is working.

     

    Steve