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Hi there,
I want to pivot / unpivot some data maybe using power query or something else. Happy to take suggestions.
I have a data set I want to transform for a mail merge, so the idea is the get all data into the one record. Normal unpivot columns in Power Query doesn't give the desired result.
This is before
| Name | Subject | Date | Session |
| John | Math | 14/07/2023 | 1 |
| John | English | 11/07/2023 | 2 |
| John | Drama | 11/07/2023 | 1 |
| Mary | Math | 15/07/2023 | 1 |
| Mary | English | 15/07/2023 | 2 |
| Mary | Drama | 13/07/2023 | 1 |
| Mary | Science | 13/07/2023 | 3 |
.
this is after
| Name | Subject1 | Date1 | Session1 | Subject2 | Date2 | Session2 | Subject3 | Date3 | Session3 | Subject4 | Date4 | Session4 |
| John | Math | 14/07/2023 | 1 | English | 11/07/2023 | 2 | Drama | 11/07/2023 | 1 | |||
| Mary | Math | 15/07/2023 | 1 | English | 15/07/2023 | 2 | Drama | 13/07/2023 | 1 | Science | 13/07/2023 | 3 |
Thanks
Q
@pickslides Please Use below M Code.
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8srPyFPSUfJNLMkAUoYm+gbm+kYGRsYgjlKsDlyBa156TmYxWI0hkhojZDUuRYm5iegqIKb4JhZVIlljiksBkjWmGNZA1cCtMcZlSnByZmpeciq6GmOl2FgA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Name = _t, Subject = _t, Date = _t, Session = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Name", type text}, {"Subject", type text}, {"Date", type text}, {"Session",type text}}),
#"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"Name"}, {{"Columns", each _[Subject]},{"Date", each Text.Combine(_[Date],"|")},{"Session", each Text.Combine(_[Session],"|")}}),
#"Extracted Values" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Grouped Rows", {"Columns", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From)), type text}),
#"Split Column by Character Transition" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Extracted Values", "Columns", Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition({"a".."z"}, {"A".."Z"}), {"Columns.1", "Columns.2", "Columns.3", "Columns.4"}),
#"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Split Column by Character Transition", "Date", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("|", QuoteStyle.None), {"Date.1", "Date.2", "Date.3", "Date.4"}),
#"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Columns.1", type text}, {"Columns.2", type text}, {"Columns.3", type text}, {"Columns.4", type text}, {"Date.1", type date}, {"Date.2", type date}, {"Date.3", type date}, {"Date.4", type date}}),
#"Split Column by Delimiter1" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Session", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("|", QuoteStyle.None), {"Session.1", "Session.2", "Session.3", "Session.4"}),
#"Changed Type2" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter1",{{"Session.1", Int64.Type}, {"Session.2", Int64.Type}, {"Session.3", Int64.Type}, {"Session.4", Int64.Type}}),
#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Changed Type2",{{"Session.1", "Session1"}, {"Session.2", "Session2"}, {"Session.3", "Session3"}, {"Session.4", "Session4"}, {"Columns.1", "Subject1"}, {"Columns.2", "Subject2"}, {"Columns.3", "Subject3"}, {"Columns.4", "Subject4"}, {"Date.1", "Date1"}, {"Date.2", "Date2"}, {"Date.3", "Date3"}, {"Date.4", "Date4"}}),
#"Reordered Columns" = Table.ReorderColumns(#"Renamed Columns",{"Name", "Subject1", "Date1", "Session1", "Subject2", "Date2", "Session2", "Subject3", "Date3", "Session3", "Subject4", "Date4", "Session4"})
in
#"Reordered Columns"
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