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jerryr0125
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Count of subcategories

Hi everyone  Using Power Query -

I am looking to do a count of subcategories by creating a new custom column.

Example:

 

Field-MainCategoryField-subcategory
A55
A33
B33
B

44

C77
D55
D44
D77



New

 

 

Field-MainCategoryField-subcategoryField-scount
A552
A332
B332
B

44

2

C771
D553
D443
D773

 

Basically - I am looking to create a new field Field-scount which is a count of occurances of the Field-MainCategory,

There are other important columns in the table so a group by will not do the trick.

 

Any ideas ? Thanks - Jerry

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AlienSx
Super User
Super User

group by category, keep all rows as one column, count rows in 2nd and expand table column after. 

let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table2"]}[Content], 
    group = Table.Group(Source, "Field-MainCategory", {{"all", each _}, {"Field-scount", Table.RowCount}}),
    expand = Table.ExpandTableColumn(group, "all", {"Field-subcategory"})
in
    expand

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AlienSx
Super User
Super User

group by category, keep all rows as one column, count rows in 2nd and expand table column after. 

let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table2"]}[Content], 
    group = Table.Group(Source, "Field-MainCategory", {{"all", each _}, {"Field-scount", Table.RowCount}}),
    expand = Table.ExpandTableColumn(group, "all", {"Field-subcategory"})
in
    expand

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