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Import folder with files that has different headers and still keep the different header
- 2 years ago
Hi PatrickWong
Not sure what you have in mind when you ask for it to be 'corrected'.
The best way to fix this would be to have the data sent to you in the proper format - tabular data - i.e. not using dates as column headers, but having a Date column and a Value column.
But given what you have, and starting with data like this
Right click the column header for the Description column and Unpivot other columns to give this
Regards
Phil
- 2 years ago
Hi PatrickWong
Here's an example PBIX file
You should be selecting the Description column then unpivoting other columns. That way the 'other' column names aren't explicitly mentioned in the query so should work for all files.
Regards
Phil
Hi PatrickWong
Not sure what you have in mind when you ask for it to be 'corrected'.
The best way to fix this would be to have the data sent to you in the proper format - tabular data - i.e. not using dates as column headers, but having a Date column and a Value column.
But given what you have, and starting with data like this
Right click the column header for the Description column and Unpivot other columns to give this
Regards
Phil
Hi PhilipTreacy
Can you share the pbix file so that I can understand how it is to be done,
If I transform to Tabular format in the transformation sample file and it works great for the first file, but as PBI convert the second file, it cannot find the name of the first column (which now has the name of the second column)