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PNicholsonRS
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SharePoint list expand table column

Hi all

 

Is there any way for me to expand the below column type, being pulled in from a Sharepoint list, in Power Query editor?

 

There are multiple name in the field on the Sharepoint list, so I need to extract these in PowerBI as concatenated for each row

 

PNicholsonRS_0-1634917228449.png

Thanks!

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Hi, @PNicholsonRS 

You can try to group by the first column and use list.combine to integrate the data after converting the data into a list.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUXLUcVKK1YlWMkJjO+u4KMXGAgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", Int64.Type}, {"Column2", type text}}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"Column1"}, {{"Count", each _, type table [Column1=nullable number, Column2=nullable text]}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Custom", each [Count][Column2]),
    #"Extracted Values" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Added Custom", {"Custom", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From), ","), type text}),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Extracted Values",{"Count"})
in
    #"Removed Columns"

 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason

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amitchandak
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@PNicholsonRS , There is expand icon and end of the column name on the right size, is that not helping you?

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@amitchandak I have expanded the column, but this means multiple rows when I want the values concatenated to sit on the same row. e.g. the name values for rows 17-18 below need to sit on one single row

 

PNicholsonRS_0-1634918690353.png

 

Hi, @PNicholsonRS 

You can try to group by the first column and use list.combine to integrate the data after converting the data into a list.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUXLUcVKK1YlWMkJjO+u4KMXGAgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", Int64.Type}, {"Column2", type text}}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"Column1"}, {{"Count", each _, type table [Column1=nullable number, Column2=nullable text]}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Custom", each [Count][Column2]),
    #"Extracted Values" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Added Custom", {"Custom", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From), ","), type text}),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Extracted Values",{"Count"})
in
    #"Removed Columns"

 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason

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