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kangdyu
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Is there a way to expand left outer join result table having many rows to new columns?

Hi, I'm an excel newbie.

 

I have two tables like this:

kangdyu_0-1680081779726.png

And default result for inner outer join with postId will be:

kangdyu_1-1680081860748.png

 

But I want to make a table like this:

kangdyu_3-1680082111296.png

 

Is there a way to achieve this with excel?

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Vijay_A_Verma
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Use this code

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUSrILy4B0WmZOamGSrE6mKJGYFEjqCiITszLL8lILQKLG0PFQbRSbCwA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [postid = _t, title = _t, name = _t]),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(Source, {"postid", "title"}, {{"name", each Text.Combine(_[name],", ")}}),
    Result = Table.SplitColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "name", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(", ", QuoteStyle.Csv), List.Transform({1..List.Max(Table.AddColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "TempStep", each List.Count(Text.Split([name],", ")))[TempStep])},each "name." & Number.ToText(_)))
in
    Result

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Anonymous
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before expanding the table, you could just use Table.AddColumn((PriorStepOrTableName, "Name1", each [TableColumnName][Name]{0})

Repeat this process but make the new column name "Name2" and replace the {0} with {1}.

--Nate

Vijay_A_Verma
Most Valuable Professional
Most Valuable Professional

Use this code

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUSrILy4B0WmZOamGSrE6mKJGYFEjqCiITszLL8lILQKLG0PFQbRSbCwA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [postid = _t, title = _t, name = _t]),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(Source, {"postid", "title"}, {{"name", each Text.Combine(_[name],", ")}}),
    Result = Table.SplitColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "name", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(", ", QuoteStyle.Csv), List.Transform({1..List.Max(Table.AddColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "TempStep", each List.Count(Text.Split([name],", ")))[TempStep])},each "name." & Number.ToText(_)))
in
    Result

Thank you for your help! Could you tell me where I should change this code to use it for other form of tables?

Vijay_A_Verma
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Most Valuable Professional

You need to use code starting Grouped Rows and replace source with the step where you had generated in second picture.

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