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abukapsoun's avatar
abukapsoun
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8 years ago

Unpivot Table

Hi,

 

I have a bit of strange request not sure if it is possible but I am giving it a try. 

 

I have the following table,

 

 

 

Is there a way I can duplicate the row, and put technology-2 under technology-1, product-2 under product-1? 

In other way, can I have a single column for " Product", "Technology" and "Skill" and populating tech-1 and tech-2 under it?

So in that case, each single row will have two rows. 

 

thanks,

Need Help

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  • MarcelBeug's avatar
    MarcelBeug
    Community Champion
    8 years ago

    It is not such a strange request; I have seeen such requests before.

     

    I assume you have other columns in your table as well, so I added a "Name" column that represents all those columns.

     

    Steps:

    • Select all columns that are not displayed in your picture
    • Choose Transform - Unpivot - Other Columns
    • Select column "Attribute"
    • Choose Transform - Extract - Text Before Delimiter - Delimiter "-", the last delimiter from the end
    • Choose Add Column - Add Index Column
    • Select column "Index"
    • Choose Transform - Standard - Integer-Divide, value 3
    • Select column "Attribute"
    • Choose Transform - Pivot Column - Values column "Value" - advanced option Don't Aggregate
    • Remove column Index

    Generated code:

     

    let
    Source = Table1,
    #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Source, {"Name"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Extracted Text Before Delimiter" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Unpivoted Other Columns", {{"Attribute", each Text.BeforeDelimiter(_, "-", {0, RelativePosition.FromEnd}), type text}}),
    #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Extracted Text Before Delimiter", "Index", 0, 1),
    #"Integer-Divided Column" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Added Index", {{"Index", each Number.IntegerDivide(_, 3), Int64.Type}}),
    #"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Integer-Divided Column", List.Distinct(#"Integer-Divided Column"[Attribute]), "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Pivoted Column",{"Index"})
in
    #"Removed Columns"
    • abukapsoun's avatar
      abukapsoun
      Post Patron
      8 years ago

      MarcelBeug

      Thank you very much Marcel for this interesting walkthrough, I have applied the steps but I feel there is something not correct with the alignment.

      If I am not mistaken, I haven't seen we have used the index and index/3 columns in the step that follow..

       

       

      Here is the generated code. 

       

       

      Thank you again,

      • abukapsoun's avatar
        abukapsoun
        Post Patron
        8 years ago

        MarcelBeug

         

        Hi Marcel, 

         

        Sorry for bothering again, but were you able to have a look at the below? 

         

        Thanks again