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Hello,
I am using the web connector to extract data from an API into PowerBI
I want to change the applied steps to the extracted data using IF statement in MQUERY.. where the condition will check a parameter value (eg either "recorded" or "value"). How to get this done?
Something highlighted like below
let
Source = #"Parent Element (2)",
IF parameter = "recorded" then
{
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(Source,{"Parent Webid", "Child Element Webid"}),
#"Expanded Data" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Data", {"Items"}, {"Items"}),
#"Expanded Items" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Expanded Data", "Items"),
#"Expanded Items1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Items", "Items", {"Name", "Items"}, {"Name", "Items.1"}),
#"Expanded Items.1" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Expanded Items1", "Items.1"),
#"Expanded Items.2" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Items.1", "Items.1", {"Timestamp", "Value"}, {"Timestamp", "Value"})
in
#"Expanded Items.2"
}
elseif parameter = "value"
{
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(Source,{"Parent Webid", "Child Element Webid"}),
#"Expanded Data" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Data", {"Items"}, {"Items"}),
#"Expanded Items" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Expanded Data", "Items"),
#"Expanded Items1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Items", "Items", {"Name", "Value"}, {"Name", "Value"}),
#"Expanded Value" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Items1", "Value", {"Timestamp", "Value"}, {"Timestamp", "Value.1"}),
#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Expanded Value",{{"Name", "Attribute"}}),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Renamed Columns",{{"Timestamp", type datetimezone}}),
#"Renamed Columns1" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Changed Type",{{"Value.1", "Value"}})
in
#"Renamed Columns1"
}
let
Source = #"Parent Element (2)",
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(Source,{"Parent Webid", "Child Element Webid"}),
#"Expanded Data" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Data", {"Items"}, {"Items"}),
#"Expanded Items" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Expanded Data", "Items"),
#"Expanded Items1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Items", "Items", {"Name", "Items"}, {"Name", "Items.1"}),
#"Expanded Items.1" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Expanded Items1", "Items.1"),
#"Expanded Items.2" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Items.1", "Items.1", {"Timestamp", "Value"}, {"Timestamp", "Value"}),
#"Expanded Items x" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Items", "Items", {"Name", "Value"}, {"Attribute", "Value"}),
#"Expanded Value" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Items x", "Value", {"Timestamp", "Value"}, {"Timestamp", "Value"}),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Expanded Value",{{"Timestamp", type datetimezone}}),
GetResult = IF parameter = "recorded" then #"Expanded Items.2" else #"Changed Type"
in
GetResult
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