Forum Discussion
Tranposing Row to Column
- 4 years ago
Hi Tevon713 ,
I intended to move those rows into columns as you can actually just show them as columns using the matrix visua. And also, the trouble with your approach is that if there are more than five Acct columns, you'll have to always get into the Query Editor and expand all those columns or they won't be included your dataset the next you refresh (see image below).If you want to show them as columns, go to Advanced Editor and replace the M-script with this:
let Source = Folder.Files("your path here"), #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(Source, each [Extension] = ".xlsx"), #"Filtered Rows1" = Table.SelectRows(#"Filtered Rows", each not Text.Contains([Name], "$")), #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Filtered Rows1",{"Name", "Content"}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "Excel Workbook", each Excel.Workbook([Content])), #"Expanded Excel Workbook" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Added Custom", "Excel Workbook", {"Data", "Item", "Kind"}, {"Data", "Worksheet", "Kind"}), #"Filtered Rows2" = Table.SelectRows(#"Expanded Excel Workbook", each [Kind] = "Sheet"), #"Removed Other Columns1" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Filtered Rows2",{"Name", "Worksheet", "Data"}), #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Removed Other Columns1", "Transformation", each let Original = [Data], Filtered= Table.SelectRows(Original, each [Column1] <> null and [Column1] <> ""), PromotedHeaders = Table.PromoteHeaders(Filtered, [PromoteAllScalars=true]), Year = Table.AddColumn(PromotedHeaders, "Year", each Original[Column2]{0}, Int64.Type), Month = Table.AddColumn(Year, "Month", each Original[Column4]{0}, type text) in Month), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom1",{"Data"}), #"Expanded Transformation" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Transformation", {"Business Unit", "Acct 1", "Acct 2", "Acct 3", "Acct 4 ", "Acct 5", "Year", "Month"}, {"Business Unit", "Acct 1", "Acct 2", "Acct 3", "Acct 4 ", "Acct 5", "Year", "Month"}) in #"Expanded Transformation"Change the data type of each column accordingly.
What kind of calculations do you do that you have to have the Accouns columns horizontally? Vertical arrangement makes more sense for me as it will make it easy to slice and dice the data with lesser measures too.
Maybe I'm overthinking still thinking as excel modeling. Calculate average per account per site/region. And some measure calculation calling other account into the forumula at specific time period. The end goal to have filters and display those region site average and cumulative average and/or measure. But also have user selection 2 years and compare the variance.
Thanks again for all your help. Much appreciated.
- danextian4 years agoSuper User
You should be able to do those using DAX. You can make a separate post for your questions if you don't know what to do. Use this as a guide so you can get a better/faster response:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/m-p/1447523#M607150