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Dear community,
I have a question for which I was hoping you could perhaps help out, I have the following dataset:
| Name | Date | Hours | Criteria 1 | Criteria 2 | Criteria 3 | Criteria 4 |
| Sander | 1-1-2022 | 8 | X | |||
Sander | 1-2-2022 | 8 | X | X | ||
| Sander | 1-3-2022 | 8 | X | |||
| Sander | 1-4-2022 | 8 |
Whenever in one of the criteria columns there are multiple "X's" on the same date I would like split that line into the same amount of rows equal to the amount of "X's" keeping the rest of the data in the other columns the same:
| Name | Date | Hours | Criteria 1 | Criteria 2 | Criteria 3 | Criteria 4 |
| Sander | 1-1-2022 | 8 | X | |||
Sander | 1-2-2022 | 8 | X | |||
Sander | 1-2-2022 | 8 | X | |||
| Sander | 1-3-2022 | 8 | X | |||
| Sander | 1-4-2022 | 8 |
I was hoping somebody could help me out how to transform this dataset properly?
Best regards!
Solved! Go to Solution.
nice exercise
let
selX= (tab) => Table.SelectRows(tab, each (List.Contains(Record.FieldValues(_), "X"))),
Origine = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCk7MS0ktUtJRMtQ31DcyMDICMi2AOAKIoShWB0WZEUyZKUQ+AqYaTZ0xTJ053ChsykyQbUVSCVaWn5ualJ9SCRQwQphngmwpFqUmCKWWyMqwKDXVN4Tbb4TmzFgA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Name = _t, Date = _t, Hours = _t, #"Criteria 1" = _t, #"Criteria 2" = _t, #"Criteria 3" = _t, #"Criteria 4" = _t]),
#"UnPivot" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Origine, {"Name", "Date", "Hours"}, "Attributo", "Valore"),
#"Aggiunta colonna indice" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"UnPivot", "Indice", 1, 1, Int64.Type),
#"Raggruppate righe" = Table.Group(#"Aggiunta colonna indice", {"Name", "Date", "Hours"}, {{"all", each selX(Table.Pivot(_, List.Distinct(_[Attributo]), "Attributo", "Valore", (x)=>x{0}? ))}}),
#"Tabella all espansa" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Raggruppate righe", "all", {"Criteria 1", "Criteria 2", "Criteria 3", "Criteria 4"}, {"Criteria 1", "Criteria 2", "Criteria 3", "Criteria 4"}),
#"Sostituito valore" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Tabella all espansa",null,"",Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Criteria 1", "Criteria 2", "Criteria 3", "Criteria 4"})
in
#"Sostituito valore"
let
Origine = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCk7MS0ktUtJRMtQ31DcyMDICMi2AOAKIoShWB0WZEUyZKUQ+AqYaTZ0xTJ053ChsykyQbUVSCVaWn5ualJ9SCRQwQphngmwpFqUmCKWWyMqwKDXVN4Tbb4TmzFgA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Name = _t, Date = _t, Hours = _t, #"Criteria 1" = _t, #"Criteria 2" = _t, #"Criteria 3" = _t, #"Criteria 4" = _t]),
#"UnPivot" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Origine, {"Name", "Date", "Hours"}, "Attributo", "Valore"),
#"indice" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"UnPivot", "Indice", 1, 1, Int64.Type),
pivot = Table.Pivot(#"indice", List.Distinct(#"indice"[Attributo]), "Attributo", "Valore", (x)=>x{0}? ?? "" ),
clean=Table.SelectRows(pivot, each (List.Contains(Record.FieldValues(_), "X")))
in
clean
nice exercise
let
selX= (tab) => Table.SelectRows(tab, each (List.Contains(Record.FieldValues(_), "X"))),
Origine = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCk7MS0ktUtJRMtQ31DcyMDICMi2AOAKIoShWB0WZEUyZKUQ+AqYaTZ0xTJ053ChsykyQbUVSCVaWn5ualJ9SCRQwQphngmwpFqUmCKWWyMqwKDXVN4Tbb4TmzFgA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Name = _t, Date = _t, Hours = _t, #"Criteria 1" = _t, #"Criteria 2" = _t, #"Criteria 3" = _t, #"Criteria 4" = _t]),
#"UnPivot" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Origine, {"Name", "Date", "Hours"}, "Attributo", "Valore"),
#"Aggiunta colonna indice" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"UnPivot", "Indice", 1, 1, Int64.Type),
#"Raggruppate righe" = Table.Group(#"Aggiunta colonna indice", {"Name", "Date", "Hours"}, {{"all", each selX(Table.Pivot(_, List.Distinct(_[Attributo]), "Attributo", "Valore", (x)=>x{0}? ))}}),
#"Tabella all espansa" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Raggruppate righe", "all", {"Criteria 1", "Criteria 2", "Criteria 3", "Criteria 4"}, {"Criteria 1", "Criteria 2", "Criteria 3", "Criteria 4"}),
#"Sostituito valore" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Tabella all espansa",null,"",Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Criteria 1", "Criteria 2", "Criteria 3", "Criteria 4"})
in
#"Sostituito valore"
let
Origine = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCk7MS0ktUtJRMtQ31DcyMDICMi2AOAKIoShWB0WZEUyZKUQ+AqYaTZ0xTJ053ChsykyQbUVSCVaWn5ualJ9SCRQwQphngmwpFqUmCKWWyMqwKDXVN4Tbb4TmzFgA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Name = _t, Date = _t, Hours = _t, #"Criteria 1" = _t, #"Criteria 2" = _t, #"Criteria 3" = _t, #"Criteria 4" = _t]),
#"UnPivot" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Origine, {"Name", "Date", "Hours"}, "Attributo", "Valore"),
#"indice" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"UnPivot", "Indice", 1, 1, Int64.Type),
pivot = Table.Pivot(#"indice", List.Distinct(#"indice"[Attributo]), "Attributo", "Valore", (x)=>x{0}? ?? "" ),
clean=Table.SelectRows(pivot, each (List.Contains(Record.FieldValues(_), "X")))
in
clean
Solution file uploaded to - https://1drv.ms/x/s!Akd5y6ruJhvhuShLXB7Qm8xdl0wJ?e=7Fl6WB
Below is M-code
let
Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Name", type text}, {"Date", type date}, {"Hours", Int64.Type}, {"Criteria 1", type text}, {"Criteria 2", type text}, {"Criteria 3", type text}, {"Criteria 4", type any}}),
#"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Changed Type", {"Name", "Date", "Hours"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
#"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Unpivoted Other Columns", "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "Custom", each Text.From([Date])&"-"&Text.From([Index])),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Index"}),
#"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Removed Columns", List.Distinct(#"Removed Columns"[Attribute]), "Attribute", "Value"),
#"Removed Columns1" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Pivoted Column",{"Custom"})
in
#"Removed Columns1"
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