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New to power query, so hoping for some help whilst I learn. Thanks in advance
I have a master table with column names which are codes e.g. XCGY, CHTY, HGFT, etc
i have a secondary table where column 1 is the list of codes and column 2 contains the useful column name I would like to use.
Can I use power query to quickly rename all columns in table 1 based on the info from table 2?
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Assume your translation table is named Translate with the columns Code and Friendly
Table.RenameColumns(#"Step to Rename",List.Zip({Translate[Code], Translate[Friendly]}), MissingField.Ignore)
Translate Table
Table with code names
Sample Code
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("RYzBDoAgDEP/ZWf+CDigloxEIRnj4N87lxgv3fraNEZSbpPCdxiClOwp/aAcIjn9pbZezvP2SBlGJvZh3UB9XRvEp+B5bTLVvCPBW65jiTLl/AA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [abc = _t, ghi = _t, def = _t, jkl = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"abc", type text}, {"ghi", type text}, {"def", type text}, {"jkl", type text}}),
#"Rename Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Changed Type",List.Zip({Translate[Code], Translate[Friendly]}), MissingField.Ignore)
in
#"Rename Columns"
with Columns Renamed
Assume your translation table is named Translate with the columns Code and Friendly
Table.RenameColumns(#"Step to Rename",List.Zip({Translate[Code], Translate[Friendly]}), MissingField.Ignore)
Translate Table
Table with code names
Sample Code
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("RYzBDoAgDEP/ZWf+CDigloxEIRnj4N87lxgv3fraNEZSbpPCdxiClOwp/aAcIjn9pbZezvP2SBlGJvZh3UB9XRvEp+B5bTLVvCPBW65jiTLl/AA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [abc = _t, ghi = _t, def = _t, jkl = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"abc", type text}, {"ghi", type text}, {"def", type text}, {"jkl", type text}}),
#"Rename Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Changed Type",List.Zip({Translate[Code], Translate[Friendly]}), MissingField.Ignore)
in
#"Rename Columns"
with Columns Renamed