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laurahoff97
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Turn column with commas into multiple rows

I have a dataset that I need to transform in powerbi, but I am unsure of the right commands to get it how I want. 

 

Below is an example of how my data currently looks. However I want to take the row IT Owners and make a separate row for each of the names that holds all the values from the other columns

IT OwnersCompany CodeManagerExecutive OwnerTags
Nick, Coach, Winston12SchmidtJessVendor1
Jake, Amy11HoltKevinVendor 1, Vendor 2
Michael, Jim, Pam, Dwight15JanDavidVendor 2
Andy, Donna, April21LeslieRonVendor 1, Vendor 3

 

I want it to look like this in the end:

IT OwnersCompany CodeManagerExecutive OwnerTags
Nick12SchmidtJessVendor1
Coach12SchmidtJessVendor1
Winston12SchmidtJessVendor1
Jake11HoltKevinVendor1, Vendor2
Amy11HoltKevinVendor1, Vendor2
Michael15JanDavidVendor2
Jim15JanDavidVendor2
Pam15JanDavidVendor2
Dwight15JanDavidVendor2
Andy21LeslieRonVendor1, Vendor3
Donna21LeslieRonVendor1, Vendor3
April21LeslieRonVendor1, Vendor3

 

 

Any help would be appreciated!

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MFelix
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Hi @laurahoff97 ,

 

For this you just need to use the split rows by delimiter and select the option rows on the the advance:

MFelix_0-1744729545167.pngMFelix_1-1744729562490.png

 

MFelix_2-1744729570429.png

 


Regards

Miguel Félix


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laurahoff97
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laurahoff97_0-1744729812075.png

Using split by delimiter and into row seemed to work easier

MFelix
Super User
Super User

Hi @laurahoff97 ,

 

For this you just need to use the split rows by delimiter and select the option rows on the the advance:

MFelix_0-1744729545167.pngMFelix_1-1744729562490.png

 

MFelix_2-1744729570429.png

 


Regards

Miguel Félix


Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution!

Proud to be a Super User!

Check out my blog: Power BI em Português



Cookistador
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Hi @laurahoff97 

The easiest way to achieve that is to create a new table in Power query(reference of your existing table)
Delete all rows except IT owner and Company Code

Split IT Owner by delimiter: ,

Select Company Code and Unpivot other column

Remove Attribute column

You should get something like that:

Cookistador_0-1744729366931.png

 

 

Then you close and apply you link your new table to the previous one

Once your two tables are linked (via Company Code), you create  a table, take IT owner from the new table and other fields from the previous one

 

Cookistador_1-1744729609590.png

 

this is the code I used in Power Query

let
    Source = ITTable,
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(Source,{"Manager", "Executive Owner", "Tags"}),
    #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Removed Columns", "IT Owners", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(",", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"IT Owners.1", "IT Owners.2", "IT Owners.3", "IT Owners.4"}),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"IT Owners.1", type text}, {"IT Owners.2", type text}, {"IT Owners.3", type text}, {"IT Owners.4", type text}}),
    #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Changed Type", {"Company Code"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Removed Columns1" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Unpivoted Other Columns",{"Attribute"})
in
    #"Removed Columns1"

 

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