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Anonymous
7 years agoNot applicable
Aligning Column Headers with Column Data
I have 2 different Excel tables I'm connecting to in Power Query and have noticed that some of the Column Headers do not match the Column Data. I need to append these 2 tables together, but the Heade...
- 7 years ago
Hi Anonymous,
I have a solution for you. It searches for all columns which are empty and removes them. Then shift the names of columns.
I've developed it as a function which will be easier to integrate in your solution.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WSlTSUUoCYiBKBuIUIE5VitWJVjIEsowgEsZAbALEpkqxsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Customer = _t, Product = _t, Qty = _t, Cost = _t, Sell = _t, #" " = _t]), fnShiftByOneEmptyColumn = (tbl as table) as table => let // get column names of the origin table ColumnNames = Table.ColumnNames(tbl), // find columns which don't contain any values EmptyColumns = List.Select( ColumnNames, each List.MatchesAll(Table.Column(tbl, _), each _ = null or _ = "") ), // remove empty column from the origin table RemoveEmptyColumn = Table.RemoveColumns(tbl, EmptyColumns), // rename columns RenameColumns = Table.RenameColumns( RemoveEmptyColumn, List.Zip( { // columns of the origin table without empty columns Table.ColumnNames(RemoveEmptyColumn), // N-x columns of the origin table List.RemoveLastN(ColumnNames, List.Count(EmptyColumns)) } ) ) in RenameColumns, Result = fnShiftByOneEmptyColumn(Source) in Result
Nolock
7 years agoResident Rockstar
Hi Anonymous,
I have a solution for you. It searches for all columns which are empty and removes them. Then shift the names of columns.
I've developed it as a function which will be easier to integrate in your solution.
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WSlTSUUoCYiBKBuIUIE5VitWJVjIEsowgEsZAbALEpkqxsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Customer = _t, Product = _t, Qty = _t, Cost = _t, Sell = _t, #" " = _t]),
fnShiftByOneEmptyColumn = (tbl as table) as table =>
let
// get column names of the origin table
ColumnNames = Table.ColumnNames(tbl),
// find columns which don't contain any values
EmptyColumns = List.Select(
ColumnNames,
each List.MatchesAll(Table.Column(tbl, _), each _ = null or _ = "")
),
// remove empty column from the origin table
RemoveEmptyColumn = Table.RemoveColumns(tbl, EmptyColumns),
// rename columns
RenameColumns = Table.RenameColumns(
RemoveEmptyColumn,
List.Zip(
{
// columns of the origin table without empty columns
Table.ColumnNames(RemoveEmptyColumn),
// N-x columns of the origin table
List.RemoveLastN(ColumnNames, List.Count(EmptyColumns))
}
)
)
in
RenameColumns,
Result = fnShiftByOneEmptyColumn(Source)
in
Result