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Brian_M
10 years agoContinued Contributor
Retain file name column when using Folder as a data source - Power Query M
Hi, Am hoping for some help. I will outline three steps below where I take a folder as a source, combine the binaries and then import. It all works fine, however, at the final step after I have ...
- 10 years ago
Actually, it's pretty easy with this line of code:
= Table.AddColumn(Source, "Custom", each Table.PromoteHeaders(Csv.Document([Content],[Delimiter=";", Encoding=1252])))
Replace your Step 2&3 with it.
It will retain all the metadata from the 1st step and add the content in an additional custom column.
If your csv's have all the same headers, you simply expand this column and the headers of the 1st file will be shown - and expand all other files on these cols as well.
If there are differnt cols - just come back & I'll post the code for the auto-expand of different headers.
pbakaric
10 years agoFrequent Visitor
I am using the folder type for get data, how can I show the file name or file create date for each row of the merged data?
ImkeF
10 years agoCommunity Champion
It is not clear to me what you are actually doing. Could you please share the M-code that has been created so far (from the advanced editor).