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kangdyu
3 years agoNew Member
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: And default result for inner outer join with postId will be: But I want to make a table like this: Is there a way ...
- 3 years ago
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
kangdyu
3 years agoNew Member
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
Most Valuable Professional
3 years agoYou need to use code starting Grouped Rows and replace source with the step where you had generated in second picture.