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Duffy789
3 years agoNew Member
Swapping cells values over in 2 colums
Hi, I have 2 columns and the data value needs to be swapped around, this is due to the source not been ideal, it is not possible to sort the source out. See below what I woudl like is the the dat...
- 3 years ago
Hi Duffy789 ,
You can use try <expresson> otherwise <expression> to parse the correct value in the needed format. For example
try Date.From([Date]) otherwise Date.From([Zone])This will parse the date from your supposed to be date column otherwise will parse the date from Zone column. HEre's a sample M code
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUTIy1zUw1zUyMDJUitWJVjKw1DWwAHGNQHJgISQVOkrGSrGxAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Date = _t, Zone = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Date", type text}, {"Zone", type text}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Date2", each try Date.From([Date]) otherwise Date.From([Zone]), type date), #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom", each try Number.From([Date]) otherwise Number.From([Zone]), Int64.Type) in #"Added Custom1"
Duffy789
3 years agoNew Member
Thanks, little bit of fiddling etc but that has done it