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surbhimanu
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Parent Child Data Manipulation

I have below data

surbhimanu_0-1719320417967.png

The requirement is to create new column(s) and insert the data from child rating as below, rating of child column should be inserted to the parent row

surbhimanu_2-1719320594185.png

 

 

 

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WanderingBI
Resolver III
Resolver III

From data modelling point of view I would not advise to create two rating columns.

 

I would recommend to do it like this (use inner join to merge the table with itself):

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUcorzckBUsZAHJBYlJpXohSrE61kBOSCZE2A2DkjMycFLGoMFTVEETVBmGKEaoop1ARUU8ygIqYoouY4TbEAcs2hTkSot4SKGqGIGhogjDFFNcYQ7CcDDIMMjWHiqM40xO0vQ1OElCGSVCwA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"RequestID -" = _t, RequestParentId = _t, Rating = _t, Type = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"RequestID -", Int64.Type}, {"RequestParentId", Int64.Type}, {"Rating", Int64.Type}, {"Type", type text}}),
    #"Merged Queries" = Table.NestedJoin(#"Changed Type", {"RequestID -"}, data, {"RequestParentId"}, "data", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
    #"Expanded data" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Merged Queries", "data", {"RequestID -", "Rating"}, {"RequestID -.1", "Rating.1"}),
    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Expanded data",{{"RequestID -.1", "RequestID_Child"}, {"Rating.1", "Rating_Child"}})
in
    #"Renamed Columns"

 

WanderingBI_1-1719294234541.png

 

 

Possible Matrix visualization:

WanderingBI_0-1719294172789.png

 

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WanderingBI
Resolver III
Resolver III

From data modelling point of view I would not advise to create two rating columns.

 

I would recommend to do it like this (use inner join to merge the table with itself):

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUcorzckBUsZAHJBYlJpXohSrE61kBOSCZE2A2DkjMycFLGoMFTVEETVBmGKEaoop1ARUU8ygIqYoouY4TbEAcs2hTkSot4SKGqGIGhogjDFFNcYQ7CcDDIMMjWHiqM40xO0vQ1OElCGSVCwA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"RequestID -" = _t, RequestParentId = _t, Rating = _t, Type = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"RequestID -", Int64.Type}, {"RequestParentId", Int64.Type}, {"Rating", Int64.Type}, {"Type", type text}}),
    #"Merged Queries" = Table.NestedJoin(#"Changed Type", {"RequestID -"}, data, {"RequestParentId"}, "data", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
    #"Expanded data" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Merged Queries", "data", {"RequestID -", "Rating"}, {"RequestID -.1", "Rating.1"}),
    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Expanded data",{{"RequestID -.1", "RequestID_Child"}, {"Rating.1", "Rating_Child"}})
in
    #"Renamed Columns"

 

WanderingBI_1-1719294234541.png

 

 

Possible Matrix visualization:

WanderingBI_0-1719294172789.png

 

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