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Moving Column Names to Column Value

I have a data source that provides sold products as column headings with a Yes in the column and I would like to replace the Yes with the column name, the issue is there are a lot of columns and I wonder if there is a smarter way to do this then to create a replacevalue statement for each column as there are a LOT of them

 

Customer Product AProduct BProduct CProduct DProduct EProduct FProduct GProduct HCombine
Customer 1  Yes Yes    
Customer 2YesYesYes   Yes  

 

I would like to end up with a table that looks like this, I did also consider a combine with if statements but the actual scenario is much more complex and it seemed simpler to set the column values first and then have the next steps do the complex combinations 

Customer Product AProduct BProduct CProduct DProduct EProduct FProduct GProduct HCombine
Customer 1  Product C Product E   

Product C

Product E

Customer 2Product AProduct BProduct C   Product G 

Product A

Product B

Product C

Product G

 

Any suggestions greatfully received 🙂

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CNENFRNL
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let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45Wci4tLsnPTS1SMFTSUVKA4sjUYgwWBMfqIGkxgitAJhWwGBQbCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Customer " = _t, #"Product A" = _t, #"Product B" = _t, #"Product C" = _t, #"Product D" = _t, #"Product E" = _t, #"Product F" = _t, #"Product G" = _t, #"Product H" = _t]),

    #"Replaced Yes" = List.Accumulate(List.Skip(Table.ColumnNames(Source)), Source, (s,c) => Table.ReplaceValue(s, c, "", (x,y,z) => if x="Yes" then y else z, {c})),
    #"Combined Products" = Table.AddColumn(#"Replaced Yes", "Combine", each Text.Combine(List.Select(List.Skip(Record.ToList(_)), each _<>""), "#(lf)"))
in
    #"Combined Products"

 

Screenshot 2021-08-20 201119.png

 


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

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CNENFRNL
Community Champion
Community Champion

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45Wci4tLsnPTS1SMFTSUVKA4sjUYgwWBMfqIGkxgitAJhWwGBQbCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Customer " = _t, #"Product A" = _t, #"Product B" = _t, #"Product C" = _t, #"Product D" = _t, #"Product E" = _t, #"Product F" = _t, #"Product G" = _t, #"Product H" = _t]),

    #"Replaced Yes" = List.Accumulate(List.Skip(Table.ColumnNames(Source)), Source, (s,c) => Table.ReplaceValue(s, c, "", (x,y,z) => if x="Yes" then y else z, {c})),
    #"Combined Products" = Table.AddColumn(#"Replaced Yes", "Combine", each Text.Combine(List.Select(List.Skip(Record.ToList(_)), each _<>""), "#(lf)"))
in
    #"Combined Products"

 

Screenshot 2021-08-20 201119.png

 


Thanks to the great efforts by MS engineers to simplify syntax of DAX! Most beginners are SUCCESSFULLY MISLED to think that they could easily master DAX; but it turns out that the intricacy of the most frequently used RANKX() is still way beyond their comprehension!

DAX is simple, but NOT EASY!

Anonymous
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Thank you so much!!!

Jakinta
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45Wci4tLsnPTS1SMFTSUVKA4sjUYgwWBMfqIGkxgitAJhWwGBQbCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Customer " = _t, #"Product A" = _t, #"Product B" = _t, #"Product C" = _t, #"Product D" = _t, #"Product E" = _t, #"Product F" = _t, #"Product G" = _t, #"Product H" = _t]),
    Custom = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Custom", each let cols=List.Skip(Table.ColumnNames(Source)), r=List.Skip(Record.ToList(_)), r1=List.Transform(List.Positions(cols), each Text.From(_) & r{_}), i= List.PositionOf(r,"Yes", Occurrence.All), replace =  List.Zip({ List.Transform(i, each r1{_}),List.Transform(i, each cols{_})}) in  List.Transform( List.ReplaceMatchingItems(r1, replace), each if Text.Length( Text.Trim(_))>1 then _ else "")),
    Custom1 = Table.AddColumn(Custom, "Custom.1", each Table.FromRows ({[Custom]}, List.Skip(Table.ColumnNames(Source)))),
    RemovedOther = Table.SelectColumns(Custom1,{"Customer ", "Custom.1"}),
    Expanded = Table.ExpandTableColumn(RemovedOther, "Custom.1", Table.ColumnNames(RemovedOther[Custom.1]{0}))
in
    Expanded

or

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45Wci4tLsnPTS1SMFTSUVKA4sjUYgwWBMfqIGkxgitAJhWwGBQbCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Customer " = _t, #"Product A" = _t, #"Product B" = _t, #"Product C" = _t, #"Product D" = _t, #"Product E" = _t, #"Product F" = _t, #"Product G" = _t, #"Product H" = _t]),
    Unpivoted = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Source, {"Customer "}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    Grouped = Table.Group(Unpivoted, {"Customer "}, {{"Combine", each Text.Combine( Table.SelectColumns(Table.SelectRows(_, each ([Value] = "Yes")),"Attribute")[Attribute], "#(lf)")}})
in
    Grouped

 

Anonymous
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Thanks for the help

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