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I have a simple table with an annual Amount. I need to split this so I can connect to a date slicer. The AnualAmount needs to be divided by 12 then that amount in the table with a monthly date.
My Table is currently like this.
Table Name: Annual Sales
I need the total amount split by 12 months like this
Thank in advance😊
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Hi again @SysJessica1 ,
Whenever the name of a step in power query contains a space, the name needs to be in quotes and preceeded by a "#" character. For example #"Changed Type". If this step were named ChangedType, without a space, it woudn't need the "#" or quote marks.
When you create the blank query, open it in the Advanced Editor (Power Query Home Ribbon -> Advanced Editor button). You will see
let
Source = ""
in
Source
Replace all of this with the code in my previous reply and click "Done". This will yield the result in the image I included in my previous reply. The first two steps in the code - "Source" and "Changed Type" are only there to recreate a sample of data - it's the steps after that which matter.
However, that is only for demo purposes. To use my code in your own query do the following.
in
#"Changed Type1"
This will create a monthly cost for each month of 2024 for all your IDNumbers.
Hope this works for you.
I tried to put this into a blank query and maybe I am doing this completely wrong as I have never done a query before. But it just gives me the code then I try to convert it to a table and it is blank
I am not sure what those # is?
Is the intent for me to create multiple tables using your code?
Hi again @SysJessica1 ,
Whenever the name of a step in power query contains a space, the name needs to be in quotes and preceeded by a "#" character. For example #"Changed Type". If this step were named ChangedType, without a space, it woudn't need the "#" or quote marks.
When you create the blank query, open it in the Advanced Editor (Power Query Home Ribbon -> Advanced Editor button). You will see
let
Source = ""
in
Source
Replace all of this with the code in my previous reply and click "Done". This will yield the result in the image I included in my previous reply. The first two steps in the code - "Source" and "Changed Type" are only there to recreate a sample of data - it's the steps after that which matter.
However, that is only for demo purposes. To use my code in your own query do the following.
in
#"Changed Type1"
This will create a monthly cost for each month of 2024 for all your IDNumbers.
Hope this works for you.
This worked! Thank you for your help!
Good day @SysJessica1 ,
Here is an option.
This is probably easier to follow by clicking through the steps in the code...here is sample code which you can paste into a blank query and then step through.
Hope this helps
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcjQxMTI1U9JRMjI3MDAA0u5Fqal5Ck6pOTlKsTrRSm4WluamJkBxEwMLsLx/UWJeeqqCR2piUYlSbCwA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Number = _t, AnnualAmount = _t, Description = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(
Source, {{"Number", type text}, {"AnnualAmount", Int64.Type}, {"Description", type text}}),
#"Create lists of monthly amount and date" = Table.TransformColumns(
#"Changed Type",{{"AnnualAmount",
each
List.Zip({
List.Numbers(_ / 12, 12, 0),
List.Transform({1..12}, each #date(2024, _, 1))
})}}),
#"Expand the lists" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Create lists of monthly amount and date", "AnnualAmount"),
#"Extracted Values" = Table.TransformColumns(
#"Expand the lists", {"AnnualAmount", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From), " "), type text}),
#"Split amount from date" = Table.SplitColumn(
#"Extracted Values",
"AnnualAmount",
Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(" ", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Monthly Amount", "Date"} ),
#"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split amount from date",{{"Monthly Amount", Int64.Type}, {"Date", type date}})
in
#"Changed Type1"
which gives...