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Hi Every body,
I have the following table :
Now please add columns to get the following:
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @koorosh , yes you can achieve this using power query editor , follow below steps :
Step 1) Open the power query editor and duplicate the Path Column by right clicking on the column :
Step 2) Right click on the duplicated column and select split column by delimiter :
Step 3) Then you can remove the below highlighted column :
Step 4) now for the first splitted column, you can replace the blank value with 'root' as shown below :
This will give you the expected result.
let me know if this works for you else share the additional details for your requirement.
Thanks,
Ankita
I think the @AnkitaaMishra solution will generate only one column.
This might be a better solution :
Populate columns in Power BI based on the folder s... - Microsoft Fabric Community
Hi @koorosh , yes you can achieve this using power query editor , follow below steps :
Step 1) Open the power query editor and duplicate the Path Column by right clicking on the column :
Step 2) Right click on the duplicated column and select split column by delimiter :
Step 3) Then you can remove the below highlighted column :
Step 4) now for the first splitted column, you can replace the blank value with 'root' as shown below :
This will give you the expected result.
let me know if this works for you else share the additional details for your requirement.
Thanks,
Ankita
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