Display a List Field as RAW JSON text field

[pnopbi]

Hello, I've read quite a bit of unhelpful posts on this, much appreciate your help here:

Have a List field in Power Query and would like to instead of Expand/Extract, simply display this as plain JSON text as in the second image. Is it possible? (Data is imported from CSV files from a folder.)

Thanks!

[Daryl-Lynch-Bzy · Accepted solution]

Hi @pnopbi - Can you please try the following combination of functions Json.FromValue and Text.FromBinary?  Note it might be easier to add a new column than transforming the existing.

let
    Source = #table( type table[column=list] , {{null}, {{"a", "b", "c"}}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Custom", each try Lines.ToText( [column] ) otherwise null ),
    #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom.1", each Text.FromBinary( Json.FromValue( [column] ) ))
in
    #"Added Custom1"

[pnopbi]

OKAY

this worked!!! thank you SO MUCH @Daryl-Lynch-Bzy 😊