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silverdale9999
Helper I
6 years ago
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Split Large Text Field

Not so much of a defined question, more of a "does anyone have any ideas I could try" kind of thing.   One of our business processes utilises a large text field within a ticketing system. (Rather t...
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  • v-zhenbw-msft's avatar
    v-zhenbw-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi silverdale9999 ,

     

    We need to split the cell into rows first.

    Select Note column and split it.

     

     

    The remaining steps are the same as the reply above.

    The result like this,

     

     

    If you have any question, please kindly ask here and we will try to resolve it.

     

    Best regards,

     

    Community Support Team _ zhenbw

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v-zhenbw-msft
Community Support
6 years ago

Hi silverdale9999 ,

 

We can use the following steps in Power Query Editor to meet your requirement.

 

1. Add a conditional column, if it doesn’t contain “_”, then it will show null.

 

 

2. Then add a conditional column, if it contains “_”, then it will show null.

 

 

3. We fill down the custom column. And filter the custom.1 is not null.

 

 

4. At last we removed the column1, and transposed the Table.

 

 

If it doesn’t meet your requirement, could you please show the exact expected result based on the table that you have shared?

 

Best regards,

 

Community Support Team _ zhenbw

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silverdale9999's avatar
silverdale9999
Helper I
6 years ago

Hi - just dropping a quick message to say thanks.. I was on holidays last week so missed your reply.  I will give this a try and see where it takes me 😁

  • v-zhenbw-msft's avatar
    v-zhenbw-msft
    Community Support
    6 years ago

    Hi silverdale9999 ,

     

    How about the result after you follow the suggestions mentioned in my original post?

    Could you please provide more details or expected result about it If it doesn't meet your requirement?

    If you've fixed the issue on your own please kindly share your solution.

    If the above posts help, please kindly mark it as a solution to help others find it more quickly. Thanks!

     

    Best regards,

     

    Community Support Team _ zhenbw

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

    • silverdale9999's avatar
      silverdale9999
      Helper I
      6 years ago

      Hi - I really appreciate your continued support with this.

       

      I really like what you've done and it's 100% new stuff for me which is great, but... It doesn't quite cover things.  Perhaps I should have explained it better, but *all* of the text is in one field at the start... I have uploaded an example file of how the data that is loaded might look:  https://1drv.ms/x/s!AjZk93r8SbJKg22k7Vh1vMJNWbN2?e=woKmml 

       

      So each Change has it's own ref (which is unique) and a notes field with all the useful information in.


      Thanks again!

      • v-zhenbw-msft's avatar
        v-zhenbw-msft
        Community Support
        6 years ago

        Hi silverdale9999 ,

         

        We need to split the cell into rows first.

        Select Note column and split it.

         

         

        The remaining steps are the same as the reply above.

        The result like this,

         

         

        If you have any question, please kindly ask here and we will try to resolve it.

         

        Best regards,

         

        Community Support Team _ zhenbw

        If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

         

        BTW, pbix as attached.