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lasse0hlsen
5 years agoFrequent Visitor
Importing data from a nested JSON file to Excel
Hey guys, I am desperately trying to parse the data from a nested JSON file (that has many records and lists in it) to Excel. I managed to view the basic information about the 158 projects that a...
- 5 years ago
Hello lasse0hlsen
instead of this
{ "Disbursements", each _{0} }you have to maintain this for every column.
{ "Disbursements", each Table.FromColumns(List.Transform(Table.ToColumns(Table.FromRecords(_)), each{Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, each try Text.From(_) otherwise "" ),", ")}),Table.ColumnNames(Table.FromRecords(_))) }Be aware that with this codes sub-lists or records will be converted to a space only. So you will loose this information. This transformation will transfrom a list of records to a table with all rows aggregated to one row. You can afterwards easily expand the table. Here a screenshot
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