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MarkDGaal
10 years agoHelper III
Steps for Creating Multiple Step Joins on Different Keys
I have two tables, Table 1; always has the full detail: Location | Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 | Hours
WAC | Plane |Civil | Recon | Air | 1000
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- 10 years ago
Somehow this request feels a bit strange, but anyway - here we go:
// Table2 let Source = YourTable2, #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ID", Int64.Type}, {"Location", type text}, {"Category 1", type text}, {"Category 2", type text}, {"Category 3", type text}, {"Category 4", type text}}) in #"Changed Type" // Table1 let
Source = YourTable1,
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Location", type text}, {"Category 1", type text}, {"Category 2", type text}, {"Category 3", type text}, {"Category 4", type text}, {"Hours", Int64.Type}}),
#"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Changed Type", "Index", 0, 1),
MatchCat4 = Table.NestedJoin(#"Added Index",{"Location", "Category 1", "Category 2", "Category 3", "Category 4"},DistinctCats,{"Location", "Category 1", "Category 2", "Category 3", "Category 4"},"Cat4",JoinKind.LeftOuter),
StrikesCat4 = Table.AggregateTableColumn(MatchCat4, "Cat4", {{"First", List.Last, "Cat4"}}),
MatchCat3 = Table.NestedJoin(StrikesCat4,{"Location", "Category 1", "Category 2", "Category 3"},DistinctCats,{"Location", "Category 1", "Category 2", "Category 3"},"NewColumn",JoinKind.LeftOuter),
StrikesCat3 = Table.AggregateTableColumn(MatchCat3, "NewColumn", {{"First", List.Last, "Cat3"}}),
MatchCat2 = Table.NestedJoin(StrikesCat3,{"Location", "Category 1", "Category 2"},DistinctCats,{"Location", "Category 1", "Category 2"},"NewColumn",JoinKind.LeftOuter),
StrikesCat2 = Table.AggregateTableColumn(MatchCat2, "NewColumn", {{"First", List.Last, "Cat2"}}),
HighestMatchLevel = Table.AddColumn(StrikesCat2, "HighestMatchLevel", each List.Min({[Cat4],[Cat3],[Cat2]}))
in
HighestMatchLevel // DistinctCats let Source = Table2, #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(Source, {"Location", "Category 1", "Category 2", "Category 3", "Category 4"}, {{"First", each List.Min([ID]), type number}, {"CountIDs", each Table.RowCount(_), type number}}) in #"Grouped Rows" // Result let Source = Table2, MergeDistinctCats = Table.NestedJoin(Source,{"Location", "Category 1", "Category 2", "Category 3", "Category 4"},DistinctCats,{"Location", "Category 1", "Category 2", "Category 3", "Category 4"},"NewColumn",JoinKind.LeftOuter), ShowLookups = Table.ExpandTableColumn(MergeDistinctCats, "NewColumn", {"First", "CountIDs", "AllIDs"}, {"First", "CountIDs", "AllIDs"}), MergeTable1OnID = Table.NestedJoin(ShowLookups,{"First"},Table1,{"HighestMatchLevel"},"NewColumn",JoinKind.LeftOuter), ShowTotalHours = Table.ExpandTableColumn(MergeTable1OnID, "NewColumn", {"Hours"}, {"TotalHours"}), CalculateHoursPerID = Table.AddColumn(ShowTotalHours, "HoursPerID", each [TotalHours]/[CountIDs]) in CalculateHoursPerIDThe query-names are given as //... at the beginning of each query
ImkeF
10 years agoCommunity Champion
This is the result I got:
Please check if this is your desired result.
If that’s your desired result, please post your query code so that I can have a look to check.
MarkDGaal
10 years agoHelper III
Okay, phew finally got my head around this, thanks ImkeF you are correct the code handles the duplication correctly! Thanks for all of your help.