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I have an ICS calendar that I am trying to transform in PowerBI. However, the data I recieve is organised as follows:
| Event: NAME XXX |
| Date: xx xx xx |
| Location: NOWHERE |
| URL: www.hi.com |
| Event: NAME YYY |
| Date: yy yy yy |
| Location: SOMEHWERE |
| URL: www.hello.com |
... and so on
I need to be able promote the text before the : delimiter on every four rows as headers. so that my data looks like this:
| NAME X | xx xx xx | SOMEHWERE | hello.com |
| NAME Y | xx xx xx | NOWHERE | bye.com |
I can use SQL or Python or data visualisation software such as PowerBI, alternatively, good ol' Excel works fine.
I tried other tools and workarounds such as uploading the ICS calendar into my Outlook calendar and then exporting the calendar. This worked fine but it is a work around.
These are the steps I followed so far: Most of the steps are data cleaning excepting the grouping at the end.
however, I cannot properly expand the tables without causing a mess with the data.
Any helps would be appreciated. The data can be found here: shorturl.at/ektHK
Solved! Go to Solution.
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45Wci1LzSuxUvBz9HVViIiIUIrViVZySSxJtVKoqIAgsJBPfnJiSWZ+HlClf7iHa5ArWDQ0yMdKoby8XC8jUy85PxcshmxgZGQkkoGVlRCEZmCwv6+rRzimkak5OfkQU2MB", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
Custom1 = Table.FromRecords(Table.Group(Source,"Column1",{"n",each Record.FromTable(#table({"Name","Value"},List.Transform([Column1],each Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(": ")(_))))},0,(x,y)=>Byte.From(Text.StartsWith(y,"Event")))[n])
in
Custom1
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45Wci1LzSuxUvBz9HVViIiIUIrViVZySSxJtVKoqIAgsJBPfnJiSWZ+HlClf7iHa5ArWDQ0yMdKoby8XC8jUy85PxcshmxgZGQkkoGVlRCEZmCwv6+rRzimkak5OfkQU2MB", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
Custom1 = Table.FromRecords(Table.Group(Source,"Column1",{"n",each Record.FromTable(#table({"Name","Value"},List.Transform([Column1],each Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(": ")(_))))},0,(x,y)=>Byte.From(Text.StartsWith(y,"Event")))[n])
in
Custom1
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