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2 years ago
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Duplicating a table in Power Query and Appending the duplicates into one table

Hi Everyone,   I am new to the community and need some help duplicating the below tables which list all of the unique values in the "Resource Name" and "Project" columns within my dataset. The firs...
  • BA_Pete's avatar
    2 years ago

    Hi Syndicate_Admin ,

     

    Your requirement to duplicate these tables X times and then append seems a little odd.

    I'm going to answer this on the assumption that your actual question was "How do I get a table that contains all unique combinations of [Project] and [Resource]?". If I've got this wrong feel free to explain further, but here's my answer to the imagined question:

     

    -1- Duplicate your Unique Projects query by right-clicking on it in the Queries pane and selecting Duplicate (this is just so you get to keep the original, it's not a critical step).

     

    -2- In the new query, add a new Custom Column that references your entire resource table, like this:

     

    -3- This will give you a nested resource table on every row of the project table that you can expand using the button circled below to create a crossjoined table:

     

    You should now have a table that contains all possible combinations of [Unique Project] and [Unique Resource Name], something like this:

     

    Pete