Transpose or Pivot table

[Anonymous]

Hi

My Data is a table that has two column's, a user name and their type.  I want to take this information and flip it so I have new columns based on the User Type values, in my case there are just two.  The Pivot options works, I get the headings, but as i don't add any aggregation I get an error.

Start and Result table:

StartResult

The smaller tabel is waht I am trying to aim for.

Chris

[Syndicate_Admin]

Hi @ccarpent ,

I believe this is due to the fact that your data configuration provides no relationship between the names for PQ to be able to assign them together on a single row under the new headings.

This thread explains it pretty well, I think:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/There-were-too-many-elements-in-the-enumeration-to-comp... 

One user suggests to add an index before performing the pivot which is actually pretty smart as it visualises the problem quite nicely:

You can see where PQ is struggling: it can't correctly allocate two names to the same row as they have no relationsip to one another in the original table.

Pete

[BA_Pete · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

I believe this is due to the fact that your data configuration provides no relationship between the names for PQ to be able to assign them together on a single row under the new headings.

This thread explains it pretty well, I think:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/There-were-too-many-elements-in-the-enumeration-to-comp... 

One user suggests to add an index before performing the pivot which is actually pretty smart as it visualises the problem quite nicely:

You can see where PQ is struggling: it can't correctly allocate two names to the same row as they have no relationsip to one another in the original table.

Pete

[Anonymous]

Hi

Your right, I need to rethink the problem, thanks for the quick response.