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2 years ago
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Conditionally Skip an Applied Step

I have a table that I want to output 4 columns sometimes and 5 columns other times.  I want to write something that will conditionally skip a merge statement in the advanced editor.  Is this possible...
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    spinfuzer
    2 years ago
    let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlSK1YlWMgKTxkqxsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    ChangedType = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", Int64.Type}}),
    choice1 = 
        let
            next1 = Table.AddColumn(ChangedType, "Column2", each [Column1] + 1),
            final1 = Table.AddIndexColumn(next1, "Index" )
        in
            final1,
    choice2 = 
        let
            next2 = Table.AddColumn(ChangedType, "Column2", each [Column1] + 5),
            final2 = Table.NestedJoin(next2, "Column1", next2, "Column1", "NestedJoin" )
        in
            final2,
    conditional_stmt = if Time.Second(DateTime.LocalNow()) > 30 then choice1 else choice2 

in
    conditional_stmt
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Anonymous
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2 years ago

This worked brilliantly.  Thank you!

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spinfuzer
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2 years ago

on second thought, you might want to put the steps directly in the if then statement because they will both run and reduce execution speed because you are running unncessary steps.  If you put them only in the if statement the second part will only run when the first part fails.

 

 

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlSK1YlWMgKTxkqxsQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    ChangedType = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", Int64.Type}}),
    conditional_stmt = 
        if 
            Time.Second(DateTime.LocalNow()) > 30 
        then     
            let
                next1 = Table.AddColumn(ChangedType, "Column2", each [Column1] + 1),
                final1 = Table.AddIndexColumn(next1, "Index" )
            in
                final1 
        else 
            let
                next2 = Table.AddColumn(ChangedType, "Column2", each [Column1] + 5),
                final2 = Table.NestedJoin(next2, "Column1", next2, "Column1", "NestedJoin" )
            in
                final2
in
    conditional_stmt