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WLou
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Rearrange Data

Hi everyone, 

 

Kind of new to the power query/pbi here, hope its an easy questions 

Please see below screenshot 

How to convert from the data set on the left to the data set on the right? In either power query/query editor

The data on the right repeat in that arrangement 

I assume its a custom column function?

Raw.jpg

 

Thanks Heaps 

Wendy

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edhans
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Community Champion

Download my attached workbook to see what I did.

 

Essentially I:

  1. Added a custom column. If the date column was null, get the value from the other column. Your data seems to consistently have a blank date where there is an account number.
  2. In the new column, selected Fill Down.
  3. Filtered out the blank rows in Date.

End result - Blue table is before, green table after:

2020-01-15 20_55_31-20200115 - Fill Down Example - Excel.png



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edhans
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Download my attached workbook to see what I did.

 

Essentially I:

  1. Added a custom column. If the date column was null, get the value from the other column. Your data seems to consistently have a blank date where there is an account number.
  2. In the new column, selected Fill Down.
  3. Filtered out the blank rows in Date.

End result - Blue table is before, green table after:

2020-01-15 20_55_31-20200115 - Fill Down Example - Excel.png



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Did my answers help arrive at a solution? Give it a kudos by clicking the Thumbs Up!

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MCSA: BI Reporting

Thank you @edhans 

 

New trick "Fill down/up" learned !

edhans
Community Champion
Community Champion

Great! Fill Up/Down is a really useful transformation when you have a report you are trying to convert to a useful table.



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