How to get specific values from records within a list

[KasperS]

Hi

I have a dataset containing information on a lot of systems we use in my organization. Each row equals to one system with the columns being information about a given system. I have a column called "Kontakter" (Contacts) which contains lists with n number of records in it, containing contact information about employees working on that system such as: Ansvarsområde (area of responsibility), navn (name), and mail. I want to extract the names of every employee that in the "area of responsibility" field has the value "Systemejerkontorchef" to a new column. How can that be done? 

[Anonymous]

I tried to reconstruct your situation (if you want a precise answer this is a job you should do) and starting from this I tried to simulate what you ask.
Try using the yourtab query by replacing "Origin" with your real table.

[donsvensen · Accepted solution]

Hi Kasper 

You can create a function to help you do this

(listToSearch as any, searchFor as text) =>
let
    Source = listToSearch,
    #"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Source, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),
    #"Expanded Column1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Converted to Table", "Column1", {"Ansvarsområde", "Name"}, {"Ansvarsområde", "Name"}),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Expanded Column1", each ([Ansvarsområde] = searchFor)),
    Custom1 = Table.ToRecords( #"Filtered Rows")
in
    Custom1

and then invoke that  as a custom function to your table

the function returns all the contacts with the title so by using {0} I only return the first in this case.

/Erik

[Gospoole]

You should be able to pull specific parts from the record quite easily.

Create a new custom column.

Name it something appropriate

In the syntax box you should put something like this if for example you are pulling the Name of someone:

= [Column Name][Title]

or if its the email you want

=[Column Name][Email]

To check what the field in the record is called click the record in the power query and then simply delete that step to return to the query and start your column creation.

Nice and simple!