Transfer data from column to line

[Catalanello]

Hi,

I have a table with the following line structure:

CostCenter LineNo Period1Amount Period2Amount Period3Amount ...

To compare the information in PowerBi I need for each Period one line, for example:

CostCenter LineNo PeriodNo  PeriodAmount

Is there a way to transform the data using power query?

Thanks in forward,

Catalanello

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Catalanello ,

You can try it out with the Unpivot feature.

Here's an example.

Select the CostCenter column and the LineNo column, then click 'Unpivot Other Columns'.

Rename the columns.

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[Vijay_A_Verma]

See the working here - Open a blank query - Home - Advanced Editor - Remove everything from there and paste the below code to test (later on when you use the query on your dataset, you will have to change the source appropriately)

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("TY1BDsAgCAT/wtkDCAY8tt8w/v8bQou1CUvIMtkdAy4oQC52qaFvcRnF1cJrCLO8XE2va3zPxP/OnFBnTJqexMgWxo+r6ZnuPrHdx+1wnGylf0p2zgU=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [CostCenter = _t, LineNo = _t, Period1 = _t, Amount = _t, Period2 = _t, Amount.1 = _t, Period3 = _t, Amount.2 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"CostCenter", type text}, {"LineNo", Int64.Type}, {"Period1", Int64.Type}, {"Amount", Int64.Type}, {"Period2", Int64.Type}, {"Amount.1", Int64.Type}, {"Period3", Int64.Type}, {"Amount.2", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Changed Type", {"CostCenter", "LineNo"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Unpivoted Other Columns", "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "PeriodNo", each if Text.Contains([Attribute], "Period") then [Value] else null),
    #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "PeriodAmount", each if Text.Contains([Attribute],"Period") then #"Added Custom"[Value]{[Index]+1} else null),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Custom1", each ([PeriodNo] <> null)),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Filtered Rows",{"Index", "Attribute", "Value"})
in
    #"Removed Columns"