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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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column formatting issues

I am having an issue where rather than showing the ID multiple times i want to show ID once but the Type region and price to all appear on the same line rather than seperate please see example data ...
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  • v-lili6-msft's avatar
    v-lili6-msft
    6 years ago

    hi Anonymous 

    For this error, it means you have more than one value in same Megerd ID for Type or Region or Price.

    It like this:

     

    So please adjust the Pivot function as below:

     

    here is M code, you could try it.

    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUQrOzc8vyQAy/PKLwLSCUqwOREoBpygI++SXg8WM8IgF55ci6QaJeiQWpcA1xMYCAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Merged = _t, Type = _t, Region = _t, Price = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Merged", Int64.Type}, {"Type", type text}, {"Region", type text}, {"Price", type text}}),
    #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type"," ",null,Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Type", "Region", "Price"}),
    #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Replaced Value", {"Merged"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Unpivoted Other Columns", List.Distinct(#"Unpivoted Other Columns"[Attribute]), "Attribute", "Value", List.Max)
in
    #"Pivoted Column"

     

    Regards,

    Lin

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Mariusz  sorry bad explanation i need to do this in Power Bi in M Query. As these columns need to be filters, i have tried pivotting the data then unpivotting but i get an error as says there can't be multiples

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Mariusz
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6 years ago

Hi Anonymous 

 

Can you paste the sample from Excel into the body of this post?

 

 

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Mariusz

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    Mariusz 

    MergedTypeRegionPrice
    1Smooth  
    1 North 
    1  Low
    2  Low
    2 South 
    2Hard  
    • Mariusz's avatar
      Mariusz
      Community Champion
      6 years ago

      Hi Anonymous 

       

      Try this 

      let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUQrOzc8vyQAyFMA4VgciDOL55RdBZZBFQdgnvxwsZoRHLDi/FEk3SNQjsSgFYVEsAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Merged = _t, Type = _t, Region = _t, Price = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Merged", Int64.Type}, {"Type", type text}, {"Region", type text}, {"Price", type text}}),
    #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type"," ",null,Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Type", "Region", "Price"}),
    #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Replaced Value", {"Merged"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Unpivoted Other Columns", List.Distinct(#"Unpivoted Other Columns"[Attribute]), "Attribute", "Value")
in
    #"Pivoted Column"

      or see the attached 

       

      Best Regards,
      Mariusz

      If this post helps, then please consider Accepting it as the solution.

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      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        6 years ago

        Mariusz thank you for this but i am getting the following erro;

        Expression.Error: There were too many elements in the enumeration to complete the operation.
        Details:
        [List]

         

         

        This is down to duplicates but i need these to be in there, thats the main part i am having issue with