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jimmybi
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8 years ago

Unpivot and append dynamically multiple columns

Hi guys,

 

I need a bit of Power Query magic. I have data from Excel files that has data for around many devices with time stamp. It looks something like this:

 

Timestamp    DeviceName EmptyColumn Timestamp1 ....

Unix time       Numbers        Nulll                Unix time

 

When I convert the Timestamp to Date/Time it works perfectly. And every Timestamp column has exactly the same value. So I need only 1 Timestamp column. What I need to do next is to unpivot the Device Name column so I would have it as a value next to the Timestamp and the numbers next to it. Essentially I need to have only 3 Columns: Timestamp with the time, Device Name with the list of the device names and the numbers collerating to the device on the 3rd column. Now I know that this can be done with unpivoting the columns. But I have 456 columns with every 3rd being empty. I also need to append the values after unpivoting them and this should be done dinamically (I really don't want to do this manually).

 

So far I have found that you can make something with List.Alternate, but I don't know how to append them, and how exactly it works. Any thoughts?

 

Thanks!

 

Jimmy 

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