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Anonymous
3 years agoNot applicable
Splitting rows containing a date interval into as many rows as the nr of weeks of the given interval
Hi community, I am a biginner with Power Query and cannot resolve this problem: This is my starting point, where a single row contains: start date, end date, total workload, number of weeks, Ta...
- 3 years ago
You can Add a Custom Column with the formula:
{0..[Number of Weeks]}Then merely expand that List to new rows, and delete the added column
let //Change next line to reflect actual data source Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table13"]}[Content], #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{ {"Task", type text}, {"Start Date", type date}, {"End Date", type date}, {"Department", type text}, {"Employee", type text}, {"WorkLoad", Int64.Type}, {"Number of Weeks", Int64.Type}, {"Solar Days", Int64.Type}, {"Weekly Mean Workload", Int64.Type}}), //Add custom column with list of {0..number of weeks} #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each {0..[Number of Weeks]}, type list), #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom"), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Expanded Custom",{"Custom"}) in #"Removed Columns"
ronrsnfld
3 years agoSuper User
You can Add a Custom Column with the formula:
{0..[Number of Weeks]}
Then merely expand that List to new rows, and delete the added column
let
//Change next line to reflect actual data source
Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table13"]}[Content],
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{
{"Task", type text}, {"Start Date", type date}, {"End Date", type date}, {"Department", type text},
{"Employee", type text}, {"WorkLoad", Int64.Type}, {"Number of Weeks", Int64.Type},
{"Solar Days", Int64.Type}, {"Weekly Mean Workload", Int64.Type}}),
//Add custom column with list of {0..number of weeks}
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each {0..[Number of Weeks]}, type list),
#"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom"),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Expanded Custom",{"Custom"})
in
#"Removed Columns"