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CHARLEA1
Frequent Visitor

Identifying Duplicates and Ranking using Power Query

Hi there, 
I've spent a long time searching the internet and have only found forumns on how to accomplish this via DAX, although I need a solution on Power Query as I intend to pivot the table depending on the custom column results.
I'm looking for how I can count a duplicate value and rank it as 1,2,3,... in the other column with Power Query

Eg. 

Name           new column
jame1
jon1
jame2
jame3
jon2
jame4
jon3

 

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Ashling

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jennratten
Super User
Super User

Hello - you can accomplish this by: grouping > add an index for each row > add another index to the grouped table in each row > expand.

 

jennratten_0-1647998015581.png

SCRIPT:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8srPyFOK1UFiBCcWJeJg+JQmV6IxMnNygKxYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Names = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Names", type text}}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"Names"}, {{"Data", each _, type table [Names=nullable text, Index=number]}}),
    #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Index", 1, 1, Int64.Type),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "Subtable", each Table.AddIndexColumn ([Data], "Index2", 1, 1, Int64.Type )),
    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Subtable", "Index"}),
    #"Expanded Subtable" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "Subtable", {"Names", "Index2"}, {"Names", "Index2"})
in
    #"Expanded Subtable"

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wdx223_Daniel
Community Champion
Community Champion

NewStep=Table.FromRecords(List.Accumulate(Table.ToRecords(PreviousStepName),{{},[]},(x,y)=>let a=Record.TransformFields(x{1},{y[Name],each _+1??1}) in {x{0}&{y&[Count=Record.Field(a,y[Name])]}},a}){0})

jennratten
Super User
Super User

Hello - you can accomplish this by: grouping > add an index for each row > add another index to the grouped table in each row > expand.

 

jennratten_0-1647998015581.png

SCRIPT:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8srPyFOK1UFiBCcWJeJg+JQmV6IxMnNygKxYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Names = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Names", type text}}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"Names"}, {{"Data", each _, type table [Names=nullable text, Index=number]}}),
    #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Index", 1, 1, Int64.Type),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "Subtable", each Table.AddIndexColumn ([Data], "Index2", 1, 1, Int64.Type )),
    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Subtable", "Index"}),
    #"Expanded Subtable" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "Subtable", {"Names", "Index2"}, {"Names", "Index2"})
in
    #"Expanded Subtable"

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