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Anonymous
4 years agoNot applicable
Sorting by Column with Duplicate Values
Got a dilema ..... in following some directions for sorting a Trade column, i ran into an error due to duplicates. So i followed some instructions of adding a Index column (because the Trade column ...
- 4 years ago
Hi Anonymous
If the duplicates are subsets of the trade above them, you need to combine their father trade with them to make it clear which father trade they belong to. And this will create unique values for them. Use this new column in your report to display.
Transformation steps are as below.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcsssSi3ISUxOLVaK1YlWCsgpzU3KzEvX9U4sKi5JzQMLKgBBUH5peoaupx9cIKQoMze/tATM9whzdNYNT83JTi0C811zUpNLijKTE3N0nYoS8zISc4kwJxYA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Trade = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Trade", type text}}), #"Duplicated Column" = Table.DuplicateColumn(#"Changed Type", "Trade", "Trade - Copy"), #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Duplicated Column", "Trade - Copy", Splitter.SplitTextByEachDelimiter({" "}, QuoteStyle.Csv, false), {"Trade - Copy.1", "Trade - Copy.2"}), #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Split Column by Delimiter","",null,Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Trade - Copy.1"}), #"Filled Down" = Table.FillDown(#"Replaced Value",{"Trade - Copy.1"}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Filled Down", "Custom", each if [#"Trade - Copy.2"] = null then [#"Trade - Copy.1"] else [#"Trade - Copy.1"] & ": " & Text.Trim([#"Trade - Copy.2"])) in #"Added Custom"Best Regards,
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lbendlin
4 years agoSuper User
you can either create a ragged hierarchy, or you can modify 34 and 35 to say "Plumbing-Karsten:Rough-IN" and "Plumbing-Karsten:Trimout" (for example).