Merge rows with delimiter

[Jamie666stuck]

Hi all. I am currently working on a project where I need to merge rows in a table i.e an individual could have 2 rows/returns. I need them to show as 1 row but where they have given an different answer for the coloumn merge with a deliminater as per example.

Current table named "New format"

Name   Fruit       Cakes.    Meat

Joe.       Apple.   Sponge   Bacon

Joe.                     Fairy      

Required

Name.    Fruit.   Cakes.              Meat

Joe.        Apple.  Sponge;Fairy  Bacon

Any help would be appreciated

Thank you

[JamesRobson]

Not sure if this will help but this is how I do it, replace the bold text with your specific data and paste into advanced editor at the correct point. Step3 seperates the answers into different columns so delete that if you want them in the same column.

This example would create a single line for each ItemCode (Name) and multiple columns for each Ink (Cake) 

Splitting multiple Rows into sperate columns based on a header i.e. ItemCode and Inks

    #"SplitStep1" = Table.Group(#"PreviousStep", {"ItemCode"}, {{"Count", each Table.RowCount(_), type number},{"Inks", each Text.Combine([Inks],","), type text}}),

    Columns = List.Transform({1..List.Max(#"SplitStep1"[Count])}, each "Inks."&Text.From(_)),

    #"SplitStep2" = Table.SplitColumn(#"SplitStep1", "Inks", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(",", QuoteStyle.Csv), Columns),

    #"SplitStep3" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"SplitStep2",{"Count"})

Thanks,

[AntrikshSharma]

@Jamie666stuck Paste this in the advanced editor:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows (
        Json.Document (
            Binary.Decompress (
                Binary.FromText (
                    "i45W8spPVdJRciwoyAHRwQX5eekghlNicn6eUqwOTAEQuSVmFlWCmCBR38xsiLI8IAQynDPyk/NzEktSwezM5OzUPGR1vol56flAOiwxLzMnJxFsSiwA",
                    BinaryEncoding.Base64
                ),
                Compression.Deflate
            )
        ),
        let
            _t = ( ( type nullable text ) meta [ Serialized.Text = true ] )
        in
            type table [ Name = _t, Fruit = _t, Cakes = _t, Meat = _t ]
    ),
    ChangedType = Table.TransformColumnTypes (
        Source,
        {
            { "Name", type text },
            { "Fruit", type text },
            { "Cakes", type text },
            { "Meat", type text }
        }
    ),
    GroupedRows = Table.Group (
        ChangedType,
        { "Name" },
        {
            {
                "Transformation",
                each Table.FromRows (
                    {
                        List.Transform (
                            Table.ToColumns ( Table.RemoveColumns ( _, "Name" ) ),
                            each Text.Combine ( List.RemoveItems ( _, { "" } ), "; " )
                        )
                    },
                    type table [ Fruit = text, Cakes = text, Meat = text ]
                ),
                type table [ Fruit = text, Cakes = text, Meat = text ]
            }
        }
    ),
    ExpandedTransformation = Table.ExpandTableColumn (
        GroupedRows,
        "Transformation",
        { "Fruit", "Cakes", "Meat" },
        { "Fruit", "Cakes", "Meat" }
    )
in
    ExpandedTransformation

[Jamie666stuck]

 hi I pasted it in but suspect my previous code in there is stopping it, could you advise what I need to tweak? Thank you

 

[AntrikshSharma · Accepted solution]

@Jamie666stuck In that case only use the code from GroupedRows step onwards, for clarity just create a new blank query > go to advanced editor and then use my complete code.