Transform columns whose data type is "List"

[Nickda0123]

I have a table with 100 columns

In which there are 40 columns (which data type is "list") need to be Transform by this code:

List.Transform(list_column_names_need_transform, (columnName) => Table.TransformColumns(Table, {{columnName, each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From), ",")}})),

I want the result is 1 table with 60 columns without Transform and 40 columns after Transform.

The result I want to got is a table with 100 columns which didn't have any "list" data type column

I alse don't want to list every column I want to Transform in the code (Because if later the number of columns (which data type is "list") increases, I have to re-edit the code, which is very difficult.)

Here is an example of my table:

Please help me with this issue, Thanks everyone

[ppm1 · Accepted solution]

Here's one way to do it in the query editor.  To see how it works, just create a blank query, open the Advanced Editor and replace the text there with the M code below.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WclTSUXJWitWJVnICslyUYmMB", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Column3", each {"E", "F", "G"}),
    #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "Column4", each {"H", "I", "J"}),
    #"Added Custom2" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom1", "RecordColumn", each _),
    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom2",{"RecordColumn"}),
    #"Added Custom3" = Table.AddColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "Custom", each let 
fieldnames = Record.FieldNames([RecordColumn]),
updatedlist = List.Transform(Record.ToList([RecordColumn]), each try Text.Combine(_, ",") otherwise _),
newrecord = Record.FromList(updatedlist, fieldnames)
in 
newrecord),
    #"Removed Other Columns1" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom3",{"Custom"}),
    #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Removed Other Columns1", "Custom", {"Column1", "Column2", "Column3", "Column4"}, {"Column1", "Column2", "Column3", "Column4"})
in
    #"Expanded Custom"

Pat

[Nickda0123]

Thank you very much, this is what I want to find!

[JirkaZ]

I guess you could try to wrap your transformation code in a "try" statement.
Error handling - Power Query | Microsoft Learn

Or even better - make the list transformation code a function and then pass the columns to it.