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BICrazy
5 years agoHelper II
Append date columns
Hi there everyone, I'm bringing in monthly spreadsheets from a folder into Power BI. Each monthly table looks like the 2 tables below: I can't get the April dates as they are being renamed to...
- 5 years ago
Hi BICrazy ,
The issue comes from your #"Changed Type" step where you are hardcoding all those column names ({"3/1/2021", type any}, {"3/1/2021_1", type any}, {"3/1/2021_2", type any}...).
Below the same query without them:
let Source = Excel.Workbook(Parameter1, null, true), Sheet1_Sheet = Source{[Item="Sheet1",Kind="Sheet"]}[Data], #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(Sheet1_Sheet, [PromoteAllScalars=true]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Promoted Headers",{{"Campaign", type text}, {"Status", type text}, {"General Manager", type text}, {"Junior Manager", type text}, {"Employee Number", Int64.Type}, {"Agent Name", type text}}), #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each ([Campaign] <> null)), #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Filtered Rows", {"Campaign", "Status", "General Manager", "Junior Manager", "Employee Number", "Agent Name"}, "Attribute", "Value"), #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Unpivoted Other Columns", "Attribute", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("_", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Attribute.1", "Attribute.2"}), #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Attribute.1", type date}, {"Attribute.2", Int64.Type}}), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Changed Type1",{"Attribute.2"}), #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type), #"Inserted Modulo" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "Modulo", each Number.Mod([Index], 3), type number), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Inserted Modulo", "Product Type", each if [Modulo] = 0 then "Package" else if [Modulo] = 1 then "Premium" else if [Modulo] = 2 then "Unlimited" else null), #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Added Custom",{{"Attribute.1", "Date"}, {"Value", "Packages"}}) in #"Renamed Columns"
Payeras_BI
5 years agoSolution Sage
Hi BICrazy ,
Are you using the option to Get Data from a Folder in Power Query?
If so you can apply the Unpivoting on the Sample File Query, before they get merged.
- BICrazy5 years agoHelper II
Hi Payeras, yes, that is exactly how I am loading the data. March is my set as my sample file where I applied the unpivoting, but when I load April data I get the error: