Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Get inspired! Check out the entries from the Power BI DataViz World Championships preliminary rounds and give kudos to your favorites. View the vizzies.

Reply
Anonymous
Not applicable

Power Query Promote Headers Dynamically

Hi Team,

I have a dataset whose sample is below:

amitkumar93_0-1647588434767.png


Now i want to Promote the headers of first two rows from first row and Promote the headers of rest rows from 2nd row.

I have almost 100 rows like this in the original dataset so its difficult to update manually.

Please Advise.

Thanks
Amit

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Solution file upoaded to - https://1drv.ms/x/s!Akd5y6ruJhvhuSx85gpq2K8FOskP?e=eBqPq8 

You can incorporate following M codes

For case 1

 

let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
    #"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(Source),
    #"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(#"Transposed Table",{"Column1", "Column2"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("", QuoteStyle.None),"Merged"),
    #"Transposed Table1" = Table.Transpose(#"Merged Columns"),
    #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Transposed Table1", [PromoteAllScalars=true])
in
    #"Promoted Headers"

 

For Case 2

let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table2"]}[Content],
    #"Demoted Headers" = Table.DemoteHeaders(Source),
    #"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(#"Demoted Headers"),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Transposed Table", "Custom", each (if Text.Contains([Column1],"Column") or Text.Contains([Column1],"_") then "" else [Column1])&(if [Column2]=null then "" else [Column2])),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Column1", "Column2"}),
    #"Reordered Columns" = Table.ReorderColumns(#"Removed Columns",{List.Last(Table.ColumnNames(#"Removed Columns"))}&List.RemoveLastN(Table.ColumnNames(#"Removed Columns"),1) ),
    #"Transposed Table1" = Table.Transpose(#"Reordered Columns"),
    #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Transposed Table1", [PromoteAllScalars=true])
in
    #"Promoted Headers"

 

View solution in original post

3 REPLIES 3
Anonymous
Not applicable

@Vijay_A_Verma You are a Lifesaver!, Thank you very much.. 

Anonymous
Not applicable

I have one more situation where i already have header for the first 2 rows and rest of rows has the header in the first row.

amitkumar93_0-1647588892823.png

Please advise for this one as well.

Thanks

Solution file upoaded to - https://1drv.ms/x/s!Akd5y6ruJhvhuSx85gpq2K8FOskP?e=eBqPq8 

You can incorporate following M codes

For case 1

 

let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
    #"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(Source),
    #"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(#"Transposed Table",{"Column1", "Column2"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("", QuoteStyle.None),"Merged"),
    #"Transposed Table1" = Table.Transpose(#"Merged Columns"),
    #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Transposed Table1", [PromoteAllScalars=true])
in
    #"Promoted Headers"

 

For Case 2

let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table2"]}[Content],
    #"Demoted Headers" = Table.DemoteHeaders(Source),
    #"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(#"Demoted Headers"),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Transposed Table", "Custom", each (if Text.Contains([Column1],"Column") or Text.Contains([Column1],"_") then "" else [Column1])&(if [Column2]=null then "" else [Column2])),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Column1", "Column2"}),
    #"Reordered Columns" = Table.ReorderColumns(#"Removed Columns",{List.Last(Table.ColumnNames(#"Removed Columns"))}&List.RemoveLastN(Table.ColumnNames(#"Removed Columns"),1) ),
    #"Transposed Table1" = Table.Transpose(#"Reordered Columns"),
    #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Transposed Table1", [PromoteAllScalars=true])
in
    #"Promoted Headers"

 

Helpful resources

Announcements
Las Vegas 2025

Join us at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

March 31 - April 2, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Use code MSCUST for a $150 discount!

FebPBI_Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - February 2025

Check out the February 2025 Power BI update to learn about new features.

March2025 Carousel

Fabric Community Update - March 2025

Find out what's new and trending in the Fabric community.

Top Solution Authors