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Anonymous
5 years agoNot applicable
Remove duplicates by prioritizing rows based on another column
Hi, everyone. I am having the following problem and don't seem to find any solution to implement this in Power Query. I have a dataset of loading lists of orders. It looks like this: ...
- 5 years ago
Okay, please try this. I have included comments that explain each step.
BEFORE:
The goal is to remove rows 1, 3, 6, 8 and to have all columns present in the result.
RESULT:
SCRIPT:
There are two different options in the grouped step along with scenarios for when one would apply as opposed to the other, based on the specifics of the source data. Currently, option 2 is in use. To switch to option 1, add two forward slashes in front of Table.LastN and remove the two slashes at the beginning of let varTable and Table.FirstN.
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("jcy5DcAgEETRXjZGaHbBVwi+irDovw0vJiFAmOQjxGOeh0IIZIgB6BHiroW3YCsQ1kt+pGT+ISNXKiu9UTcEGaL1n40x5n/F7sfZGJ0q6HtwHoIMp10qOxV7XndjdB2CDK/dKKUX", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Latest = _t, #"NVE-Nr." = _t, Item = _t, Date = _t, #"LHM-Nr." = _t, Index = _t]), grouped = Table.Group( Source, // Column(s) containing the values from which you'd like duplicates removed. {"NVE-Nr."}, { { "Table", // Name of the new column. each //--------------------------------------------------------- // Option 1: Sort descending, then select the first result. //--------------------------------------------------------- // This will work if there is a maximum of only two rows per NVE-Nr. //let varTable = Table.Sort ( _, {{"LHM-Nr.", Order.Descending}}) in //Table.FirstN ( varTable, 1 ), //--------------------------------------------------------- // Option 2: Select the last LHM-Hr for each NVE-Nr. //--------------------------------------------------------- // This will work if the row to keep always appears last in the group. Table.LastN ( _, 1 ), type table } } ), expand = Table.ExpandTableColumn ( grouped, "Table", // Expand the tables in this column List.Difference ( // New column names Table.ColumnNames ( // are the column names Table.Combine ( grouped[Table] ) // in the nested tables ), Table.ColumnNames ( grouped ) // that do not appear in the grouped table. ) ) in expand
Syndicate_Admin
5 years agoAdministrator
Hello - here is an option for returning the result.
I have created a sample table with similar specs. The goal is to keep rows 2, 3, 5, 7, 8.
BEFORE
AFTER
SCRIPT
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUXJ0cgaSSrE6yFzfxJKMYrCYEZDn5OwCJF3z0nMyizPQRMFcYyDD2cUVRSNCDMw1ATJcXN1gXFOQgW7uyMbGAgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Student ID" = _t, #"Student Name" = _t, Subject = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Student ID", Int64.Type}, {"Student Name", type text}, {"Subject", type text}}),
#"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(
#"Changed Type",
{"Student ID", "Student Name"},
{
{ "Subject", each List.First ( List.Sort ( _[Subject], Order.Descending ) ) },
{ "All", each _, type table [Student ID=nullable number, Student Name=nullable text, Subject=nullable text]}}
)
in
#"Grouped Rows"