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ktbb5757
2 years agoRegular Visitor
Replace values in up to 2 columns based on table values
Hi all - Relatively new user here. I have two columns in table "Main." One is "Issue Type" and the other is "Subcategory." The underly data is part of a investigation case management system wher...
- Anonymous2 years ago
Hi ktbb5757 ,
You can try the follwing codelet MainTable = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("LYw7CsNADAWvsqj2KfIjIaRJysXFWmhBWJaCVi58e29M2nkzL2c4OU/kGwxwXb5iG1F6Ms5TwRnGIcPZtApjJKvpoUFOLbr84oYkUpRsbYf4IVyd4/d0K9K4MpZg02O8vzu+9MZ5Yf3zcQc=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Prior Issue Type" = _t, #"Prior Subcategory" = _t]), IssueMapTable = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcspMSi2qVNJRcs7PzU0tykxOzFGAisXqRCt5BAGlAlKLivPzgBJBqTmJJZn5ecUZmQXFCHm3xJzizDSgVpCcUmwsAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"New Issue Type" = _t, #"New Subcategory" = _t]), MainWithIndex = Table.AddIndexColumn(MainTable, "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type), IssueMapWithIndex = Table.AddIndexColumn(IssueMapTable, "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type), MergedTables = Table.NestedJoin(MainWithIndex, "Index", IssueMapWithIndex, "Index", "IssueMap", JoinKind.FullOuter), ExpandedTable = Table.ExpandTableColumn(MergedTables, "IssueMap", {"New Issue Type", "New Subcategory"}), ReplacedTable = Table.AddColumn(ExpandedTable, "Current Issue Type", each if [New Issue Type] = null then [Prior Issue Type] else [New Issue Type]), ReplacedTable2 = Table.AddColumn(ReplacedTable, "Current Subcategory", each if [New Subcategory] = null then [Prior Subcategory] else [New Subcategory]), FinalTable = Table.SelectColumns(ReplacedTable2, {"Current Issue Type", "Current Subcategory"}) in FinalTableFinal output
Best regards,
Albert HeIf this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly
ktbb5757
1 year agoRegular Visitor
That worked. Thanks so much.