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Reduce table in table to columns
- 5 years ago
Hello Anonymous
check out this dynamically solution. It chooses the first column of your single tables that contains the name "value" and uses it's data for the column. Be aware that the source step it's just here to reproduce your scenario. The transformation you can see in the step "CreateListOfValueColumns "
let Source = #table ( type table [Column1=table, 204 = table], { { #table ( type table [Column1.ColumnName= text, Column1.Value= any ], { { "name1", "value1" }, { "name2", "value2" }, { "name3", "value3" } } ), #table ( type table [Column1.ColumnName= text, Column1.Value= any ], { { "name1", "abc" }, { "name2", "abcddd" } } ) } } ), CreateListOfValueColumns = Table.TransformRows ( Source, (rec)=> Table.TransformColumns ( Record.ToTable(rec), { { "Value", (tbl)=> Table.Column(tbl,List.Select(Table.ColumnNames(tbl), each Text.Contains(Text.Upper(_), "VALUE")){0}) } } )[Value] ){0}, CreateFinalTable = Table.FromColumns(CreateListOfValueColumns,Table.ColumnNames(Source)) in CreateFinalTableCopy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works. If you need to implement it in your data source let me know
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Anonymous
Do you need to extract only the first column from each table and combine it as one table?
Sample Data will be great.
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Fowmy I added more details and code to my post.