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heimk008
8 years agoFrequent Visitor
Remove duplicate rows based on max value of a different column
Hello! I have a set of data that I am trying to remove duplicates from based on the number of filled cells per row. The data is form submissions that have a person's email address and then a numb...
- 8 years ago
Yes:
heimk008
8 years agoFrequent Visitor
Thanks for the response , however that doesn't seem to work. Even when I sort by decending and then remove duplicate emails it still takes away some of the emails that have the highest number of filled cells.
For example:
before-
after -
you can see that I now lost the entry with 16 filled cells.
MarcelBeug
Community Champion
8 years agoA known issue with sorting and removing duplicates is that you need to buffer the table in between.
You might wrap your sort step like: Table.Buffer(your sortcode).
- heimk0088 years agoFrequent Visitor
still relatively new to Power BI, what does "wrap your sort step like: Table.Buffer(your sortcode)" actually mean? are you able to show me by chance?
- MarcelBeug8 years ago
Community Champion
Yes:
- JamesB231 year agoNew Member
Thanks for this 🙌