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Hi everyone, I need help in creating a column in a table in power query. In my table I have a column 'order_line_id'. This column has duplicates. Now, I need to create a column 'rank' which gives rank based on the column 'order_line_id'. I am attaching below a demo table below.
order_line_id | rank |
123456 | 1 |
123457 | 1 |
123452 | 1 |
157593 | 1 |
123456 | 2 |
Here in this case, I'm creating a rank for all the values of order_line_id. In the example table above 123456 is a duplicate order_line_id and the whichever comes first in the table is ranked 1 and later 2.
It would be great if someone can help me to achieve this in power query.
Thanks in advance!
Solved! Go to Solution.
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQyNjE1U4rVgTLNEUwjCNPU3NTSGCEKVBsLAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [order_line_id = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"order_line_id", Int64.Type}}),
#"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"order_line_id"}, {{"Count", each _, type table [order_line_id=nullable number]}}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Custom", each Table.AddIndexColumn([Count], "Rank", 1,1)),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Count"}),
#"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Custom", {"Rank"}, {"Rank"}),
#"Sorted Rows" = Table.Sort(#"Expanded Custom",{{"Rank", Order.Ascending}})
in
#"Sorted Rows"
We grouped them according to order line id
then created an index column according to it
then sorted the rank according to your requirement
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQyNjE1U4rVgTLNEUwjCNPU3NTSGCEKVBsLAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [order_line_id = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"order_line_id", Int64.Type}}),
#"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"order_line_id"}, {{"Count", each _, type table [order_line_id=nullable number]}}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Custom", each Table.AddIndexColumn([Count], "Rank", 1,1)),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Count"}),
#"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Custom", {"Rank"}, {"Rank"}),
#"Sorted Rows" = Table.Sort(#"Expanded Custom",{{"Rank", Order.Ascending}})
in
#"Sorted Rows"
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