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Hello to everyone,
I want to take the first element from a list in the same row which was not taken from a row with a smaller index.
The Idea ist to match debit and credit bookings.
Do you know how the custom function in power query hat to be written?
In the sample data you can see a list where the first element should be taken but not twice.
Date | Booking Text | Transaction text | Account | Attribute | Value | IndexMatching Elements Index | Desired Result Custom Function
06.10.2021 00:00 | ACD | Transaction | A | Debit | 120 | 9 | {7,9} | 7 |
06.10.2021 00:00 | ACD | Transaction | B | Debit | 120 | 3376 | {7,9} | 9 |
06.10.2021 00:00 | ACD | Transaction | C | Debit | 50 | 30415 | null | |
06.10.2021 00:00 | ACD | Transaction | D | Debit | 120 | 40551 | {7,9} | null |
Thank you in advance.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hello, @Friedrich902
s = your_table,
lst = s[IndexMatching Elements Index],
new_col =
List.Accumulate(
lst,
{},
(s, c) => s & {List.Difference(c ?? {null}, List.RemoveNulls(s)){0} ? }
),
result = Table.FromColumns( Table.ToColumns(s) & {new_col}, Table.ColumnNames(s) & {"Desired Result Custom Function"} )
Hello AlienSX, than you so much for the solution.
I have an additional problem.
I want to add a column "Desired Result Custom Function 2" which takes all elements from the list "All Elements Index" which are not taken in the new column "Result Custom Function 1". Is this possible?
Date | Booking Text | Transaction text | Account | Value | Attribute | Index | All Elements Index | Matching Elements Index | Result Custom Function 1 | Desired Result Custom Function 2 |
06.10.2021 | ACD | Transaction A | Debit | AccountA | 120 | 9 | {7,8,9} | {7,9} | 7 | null |
06.10.2021 | ACD | Transaction A | Debit | AccountA | 120 | 3376 | {7,8,9} | {7,9} | 9 | null |
06.10.2021 | ACD | Transaction A | Debit | AccountA | 50 | 30415 | {7,8,9} | 8 | ||
06.10.2021 | ACD | Transaction A | Debit | AccountA | 120 | 40551 | {7,8,9} | {7,9} | 8 |
My M Code so far:
let
Source = #table({"Date", "Booking Text", "Transaction text", "Account", "Value", "Attribute", "Index", "All Elements Index", "Matching Elements Index"}, {{#date(2021,10,6), "ACD", "Transaction A", "Debit", "AccountA", 120, 9, {7, 8, 9} , {7,9}}, {#date(2021,10,6), "ACD", "Transaction A", "Debit", "AccountA", 120, 3376, {7, 8, 9} , {7,9}}, {#date(2021,10,6), "ACD", "Transaction A", "Debit", "AccountA", 50, 30415, {7, 8, 9} , null}, {#date(2021,10,6), "ACD", "Transaction A", "Debit", "AccountA", 120, 40551, {7, 8, 9} , {7,9}
}}),
#"Changed_Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Booking Text", type text}, {"Transaction text", type text}, {"Account", type text}, {"Attribute", type number}, {"Date", type date}, {"Value", type text}, {"Index", Int64.Type}}),
s = #"Changed_Type1",
lst = s[Matching Elements Index],
new_col =
List.Accumulate(
lst,
{},
(s, c) => s & {List.Difference(c ?? {null}, List.RemoveNulls(s)){0} ? }
),
result = Table.FromColumns( Table.ToColumns(s) & {new_col}, Table.ColumnNames(s) & {"Desired Result Custom Function"} ),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(result,{{"Desired Result Custom Function", Int64.Type}})
in
#"Changed Type"
Hello, @Friedrich902
s = your_table,
lst = s[IndexMatching Elements Index],
new_col =
List.Accumulate(
lst,
{},
(s, c) => s & {List.Difference(c ?? {null}, List.RemoveNulls(s)){0} ? }
),
result = Table.FromColumns( Table.ToColumns(s) & {new_col}, Table.ColumnNames(s) & {"Desired Result Custom Function"} )