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luisat
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Dynamic nav table / dynamic table / custom connector

Hey everybody,   I´m currently working on a custom connector for a api. The conector is already set up to deliver all the data in one big table but then I discovered navigation tables so I  guess I...
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    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Hi luisat ,

     

    I think your question may be more suitable for the Developers forum: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/bd-p/Developer

     

    As to M, I think there may be several ways to achieve what you want. The below code does literally what you want - a set of nested tables, but I am not sure about practicality in application to connectors:

     

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSQcGJSrE6qKJGQJyEIgoSMQbiZAxREyBOgYvC1JkCcSqGqBkQp6GIgnSbA3E6hqgFEGcoxcYCAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [User = _t, #"Company Name" = _t, #"Agent Name" = _t, #"Device Name" = _t, Data = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"User", type text}, {"Company Name", type text}, {"Agent Name", type text}, {"Device Name", type text}, {"Data", type text}}),
        #"Pack Data" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"User", "Company Name", "Agent Name", "Device Name"}, {{"Data", each _}}),
        #"Pack Devices" = Table.Group(#"Pack Data", {"User", "Company Name", "Agent Name"}, {{"Data", each _}}),
        #"Pack Agents" = Table.Group(#"Pack Devices", {"User", "Company Name"}, {{"Data", each _}}),
        #"Pack Companies" = Table.Group(#"Pack Agents", {"User"}, {{"Data", each _}})
    in
        #"Pack Companies"

     

    This can be further improved by adding table types in the grouping and maybe creating a function to loop through the column to remove some duplicated code, but in principle, this does what you need (as far as I understand it).

     

    Kind regards,

    JB