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uayan
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3 years ago
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Combine rows into 1 row

Hello all, 

I have a table like this

ABCD
FAILNULLNULLNULL
NULLPASSNULLNULL
NULLNULLFAILNULL
NULLNULLNULLPASS

 

I'd like to convert it to the following (1 row)

ABCD
FAILPASSFAILPASS

 

There are other columns as well but they have already same values.

Thanks a lot.

 

Edit: Actually I had pivotted the table. My table was like that. I want it to convert to the above.

Column1Column2 
AFAIL
BPASS
CFAIL
DPASS
  • After pivot try transpose and make  1st row as header 
    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcnP09FHSUfIL9UGnYnWiYfwAx+Bg3LJQCtkkTFlkk2JjAQ==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [A = _t, B = _t, C = _t, D = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"A", type text}, {"B", type text}, {"C", type text}, {"D", type text}}),
    #"Unpivoted Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Changed Type", {}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Unpivoted Columns", each ([Value] <> "NULL")),
    #"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(#"Filtered Rows"),
    #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Transposed Table", [PromoteAllScalars=true]),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Promoted Headers",{{"A", type text}, {"B", type text}, {"C", type text}, {"D", type text}})
    in
    #"Changed Type1"

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  • raju_17's avatar
    raju_17
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    After pivot try transpose and make  1st row as header 
    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcnP09FHSUfIL9UGnYnWiYfwAx+Bg3LJQCtkkTFlkk2JjAQ==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [A = _t, B = _t, C = _t, D = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"A", type text}, {"B", type text}, {"C", type text}, {"D", type text}}),
    #"Unpivoted Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Changed Type", {}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Unpivoted Columns", each ([Value] <> "NULL")),
    #"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(#"Filtered Rows"),
    #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Transposed Table", [PromoteAllScalars=true]),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Promoted Headers",{{"A", type text}, {"B", type text}, {"C", type text}, {"D", type text}})
    in
    #"Changed Type1"