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GabrielDC
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How do I transform this table?

HI All

Sorry if this is a rookie question.

I have this table [above] with severals months and their items. I'd like to put all the months together in one single column [like the table below].

 

How can I achieve that?

 

Thanks in advance

GabrielDC_0-1664729972295.png

 

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Thanks Greg, your answer inspired me to try something:

 

1) convert all fields to text type

2) concatenate each month with their respective item

GabrielDC_0-1664734324292.png

 

3) Unpivot by these concatenated columns

4) delete the month/items columns

5) Split the concatenated column

GabrielDC_1-1664734432787.png

6) Profit 🙂

 

Thanks Greg, we did this!

 

 

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CNENFRNL
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let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WykosUNJRMjbUt9A3MjAyArINIXxzGN9EKVYnWqm0OBFNnRGaOlOwutTcVHSFxmgKzZRiYwE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [region = _t, month1 = _t, item1 = _t, month2 = _t, item2 = _t]),
    #"Split to columns" = Table.ToColumns(Source),
    #"Combined tables" = let hdr = #"Split to columns"{0} in Table.Combine(List.Transform(List.Split(List.Skip(#"Split to columns"),2), each Table.FromColumns({hdr} & _)))
in
    #"Combined tables"

CNENFRNL_0-1664735582769.png


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Thanks Greg, the thing is I have 12 months columns in the Table so that's going to be a lot of Tables and Appends in the Editor (which is messy already 😞 ),  is there anything that can be done with Unpivot or Transpose?

@GabrielDC Understood but that's quite possibly the worst formatting for an Excel spreadsheet to ingest into Power BI possible. If you had this:

Combined 7/31/2022 8/31/2022

usa

5 2
japan 10 3
emea 6 5
     

Then, yes, you could select "combined" column, right-click and select "Unpivot other columns". But, you don't have that.



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Thanks Greg, your answer inspired me to try something:

 

1) convert all fields to text type

2) concatenate each month with their respective item

GabrielDC_0-1664734324292.png

 

3) Unpivot by these concatenated columns

4) delete the month/items columns

5) Split the concatenated column

GabrielDC_1-1664734432787.png

6) Profit 🙂

 

Thanks Greg, we did this!

 

 

@GabrielDC Very nice!



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