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I'm looking to use values stored in a column to search for column names, to pull the requisite value from the searched column. Does anyone know how to do this? Here's the preferred before/after:
Before:
| ColNames | Attr1 | Attr2 |
| Attr1 | 1 | 4 |
| Attr1 | 2 | 5 |
| Attr2 | 3 | 6 |
After:
| ColNames | Attr1 | Attr2 | NewCol |
| Attr1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Attr1 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Attr2 | 3 | 6 | 6 |
Solved! Go to Solution.
@Anonymous ,
Try this solution on Power Query:
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