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Hi all,
I hope all of you are having a great time. I need a help with Power Query.
I have the following Column.
I want to add a Category Column that depends on row as below. For example, the First 3 rows Category 1, row 3 to 6 Category 2 and so on. A business rule is that the category should increase after every 3 rows.
How can I achieve this in Power Query?
Thanks in Advance
Solved! Go to Solution.
Simply adding 1 would solve it
Table.AddColumn(Source, "Category", each "Category " & Number.ToText(Number.RoundDown(List.PositionOf(Source[ID],[ID])/3)+1))
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlGK1YlWMgWTZmDSHExagElLMGloAKEMIZSRUmwsAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ID", Int64.Type}}),
Custom1 = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "New", each "Category " & Text.From(Number.IntegerDivide([ID]-1, 3)))
in
Custom1
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Hi,
Paste this into your next step and replace Source with previous one.
Categorized = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Category", each "Category " & Number.ToText(Number.RoundDown(List.PositionOf(Source[ID],[ID])/3)))
It started from 0 instead of 1 when I used the code.
When I included Roundup, it came as follows:
We were close enough
Thankyou,
Simply adding 1 would solve it
Table.AddColumn(Source, "Category", each "Category " & Number.ToText(Number.RoundDown(List.PositionOf(Source[ID],[ID])/3)+1))
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