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Date questions controle end date
- 3 years ago
In Power Query, try the following code
- Group by ID
- Add a column to each subgroup consisting of the date column altered by
- Removing the first entry
- Duplicating the last entry
let //change next line to reflect actual data source Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table7"]}[Content], #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ID", Int64.Type}, {"Date", type date}}), //Group by ID //Then shift the date column up one (delete first entry, // adding the "last" date to the bottom #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"ID"}, { {"End", each Table.FromColumns( Table.ToColumns(_) & {List.RemoveFirstN([Date],1) & {List.Last([Date])}}, {"ID","Date","End"}), type table[ID=Int64.Type,Date=date, End=date]} }), #"Expanded End" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "End", {"Date", "End"}) in #"Expanded End"Results from your Data above
Thats that works, very nice and again thanks. Just one detailed question. I am not very familiar with Power Query and the Advanced editor. The dataset that I shared was an simplied version. What do I need to do if I want to add addtional columns that are in the base dataset (about 20 colums)?
Hope you can awnser this as wel 😄
You may need to specify all the columns in the functions where only a few are specified now. Your own code should have generated a #"Changed Type" step that labels them there. You will have to add more column definitions in the Table.FromColumns function. There are methods to automate that but it depends on your column types, or you can just add them manually if they will be a constant.