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Anonymous
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Transforming data table

Hi,

 

In PowerBI i have a data Table 1, which needs to be converted a in Table 2.

Is it possible? Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Table 1:
Table 1 (from)Table 1 (from)

 

Table 2:
Table 2 (to)Table 2 (to)

 

BR,

Anabn

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION
slorin
Super User
Super User

Hi,

 

let
Source = Your_Source,
Unpivot = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Source, {"ID", "Activity"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
Combine_Columns = Table.CombineColumns(Unpivot,{"Activity", "Attribute"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("_", QuoteStyle.None),"Attribute.1"),
Pivot = Table.Pivot(Combine_Columns, List.Distinct(Combine_Columns[Attribute.1]), "Attribute.1", "Value",
each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From), " - "))
in
Pivot

Stéphane

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slorin
Super User
Super User

Hi,

 

let
Source = Your_Source,
Unpivot = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Source, {"ID", "Activity"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
Combine_Columns = Table.CombineColumns(Unpivot,{"Activity", "Attribute"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("_", QuoteStyle.None),"Attribute.1"),
Pivot = Table.Pivot(Combine_Columns, List.Distinct(Combine_Columns[Attribute.1]), "Attribute.1", "Value",
each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From), " - "))
in
Pivot

Stéphane

wdx223_Daniel
Community Champion
Community Champion

=Table.Combine(Table.Group(PreviousStepName,"ID",{"n",each let a=List.Skip(Table.ColumnNames(_),2) in #table({"ID"}&List.TransformMany([Activity],each a,(x,y)=>x&"_"&y),{List.Combine(Table.Rows(Table.SelectColumns(_,a)))})})[n])

slorin
Super User
Super User

Hi,

let
Source = Your_Source,
Unpivot = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Source, {"ID", "Activity"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
Combine_Columns = Table.CombineColumns(Unpivot,{"Activity", "Attribute"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("_", QuoteStyle.None),"Attribute.1"),
Pivot = Table.Pivot(Combine_Columns, List.Distinct(Combine_Columns[Attribute.1]), "Attribute.1", "Value")
in
Pivot

Stéphane 

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi, Thank you 🙂
this worked perfectly fine.
But some values have Error after Pivot, even though it had a proper date format before pivot.
ErrorError

ppm1
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

You could do it by first unpivoting the Date 1, Date 2, and Date 3 columns, create a new column that merges the first column with the new Attribute column (Date 1/2/3), and then pivoting on that new column. However, you should consider just doing the unpivot step only to set your data up for easier analysis (you could always create your design table in a visual as needed).

 

Pat

Microsoft Employee

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