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DSwezey
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Merging Columns and replacing Null values

Hi all, 

Brand new to Power BI so bear with me.

 

I just merged 4 queries into one generating quite a bit of data. 

These were merged based on the 1st column in each query. 

What I am looking to do is merge these 4 columns into one, but my issue is with the null values. Each column is a different year and each year has slightly different data in each row. How can I go about merging all 4 columns and replacing the null values with the missing data from respective columns?

 

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BA_Pete
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Hi @DSwezey ,

 

Not sure if this fully meets your requirements (it should be noted that in your example [BS 2020] actually holds a complete dataset), but you could try adding a new column with the following calculation:

 

List.Max({[BS 2018], [BS 2019], [BS 2020], [BS 2021]})

 

 

Obviously this isn't particularly dynamic and will break if/when you change the years but, for a one-off operation, should work ok.

 

Pete



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BA_Pete
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Hi @DSwezey ,

 

Not sure if this fully meets your requirements (it should be noted that in your example [BS 2020] actually holds a complete dataset), but you could try adding a new column with the following calculation:

 

List.Max({[BS 2018], [BS 2019], [BS 2020], [BS 2021]})

 

 

Obviously this isn't particularly dynamic and will break if/when you change the years but, for a one-off operation, should work ok.

 

Pete



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List.Max(Record.ToList(_))

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