Group By - Text.Combine

[andybamber]

Hello!

I have attached a PBIX.

I have a small data table which has a Code column and a Mail column

For each of the Codes A0, B1, C2 there are the same 4 mail addresses a.com, b.com, c.com. d.com

If you go into Power Query you can see I have used a Group with a Text.Combine to get a concatenated string of mail addresses for each code. The problem is that I would like to see the mail addresses in the same order for codes, A0, B1 and C2, but if you look at the source data, for code B1 the mail addresses are in a different order, and that reflects in the grouping and combine result

What do i need to do in order to see the mail addresses concatenated in the same order for each Code? I'm guessing some kind of sort?

PBIX 

Thanks!

[rohit_singh]

Hi @andybamber ,

You just need to add an additional line to sort data before you group and concatenate :

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcjRQ0lFK1EvOz1WK1YFyk1C5yajcFDjXyRCTm4zKTULlIixyNsLkJqFyk1G5CIucjYHcVAg3FgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Code = _t, Mail = _t]),
    #"Sorted Rows" = Table.Sort(Source,{{"Code", Order.Ascending},{"Mail", Order.Ascending}}),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Sorted Rows",{{"Code", type text}, {"Mail", type text}}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type",{"Code"},{{"Concat Mail", each Text.Combine([Mail],";"), type text}})
in
    #"Grouped Rows"

#"Sorted Rows" = Table.Sort(Source,{{"Code", Order.Ascending},{"Mail", Order.Ascending}})

This will sort your data in ascending order using the code column first, and then the mail column.

The result is this :

Kind regards,

Rohit

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[Vijay_A_Verma · Accepted solution]

Yes, you will need to sort the second column - Then buffer the table and use buffered table in the Group by. If you don't use buffered table, you will have original sort order.

Below is revised query

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcjRQ0lFK1EvOz1WK1YFyk1C5yajcFDjXyRCTm4zKTULlIixyNsLkJqFyk1G5CIucjYHcVAg3FgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Code = _t, Mail = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Code", type text}, {"Mail", type text}}),
    #"Sorted Rows" = Table.Buffer(Table.Sort(#"Changed Type",{{"Mail", Order.Ascending}})),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Sorted Rows",{"Code"},{{"Concat Mail", each Text.Combine([Mail],";"), type text}})
in
    #"Grouped Rows"