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WishAskedSooner
Continued Contributor
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Unpivot and Normalize

Hi Experts!

 

I am a complete newbie to Power Query. I am eager to learn and have a complicated unpivoting problem.

 

I have pivoted data in the following format (it's not my data):

ProdPriceInvProdPriceInv
A110B220

 

I can easily unpivot in PQ to the following:

ProdA
Price1
Inv10
ProdB
Price2
Inv20

 

Now, I need to normalize the above output:

ProdAttrValue
APrice1
AInv10
BPrice2
BInv20

 

Is there an easy way to normalize the data using Power Query? Thanks in advance for the help!

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dufoq3
Super User
Super User

Hi @WishAskedSooner, another solution:

 

Result

dufoq3_0-1721808347899.png

 

You have to enter number of columns for split:

dufoq3_1-1721808761047.png

dufoq3_2-1721808814382.png

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WclTSUTIEYQMg4QTERiBsoBQbCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Prod = _t, Price = _t, Inv = _t, Prod.1 = _t, Price.1 = _t, Inv.1 = _t]),
    Transformed = Table.Combine(List.Transform(List.Split(Table.ToColumns(Source), 3), (x)=> Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Table.FromColumns(x, {"Prod", "Price", "Inv"}), {"Prod"}, "Attr", "Value")))
in
    Transformed

 


Note: Check this link to learn how to use my query.
Check this link if you don't know how to provide sample data.

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dufoq3
Super User
Super User

Hi @WishAskedSooner, another solution:

 

Result

dufoq3_0-1721808347899.png

 

You have to enter number of columns for split:

dufoq3_1-1721808761047.png

dufoq3_2-1721808814382.png

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WclTSUTIEYQMg4QTERiBsoBQbCwA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Prod = _t, Price = _t, Inv = _t, Prod.1 = _t, Price.1 = _t, Inv.1 = _t]),
    Transformed = Table.Combine(List.Transform(List.Split(Table.ToColumns(Source), 3), (x)=> Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Table.FromColumns(x, {"Prod", "Price", "Inv"}), {"Prod"}, "Attr", "Value")))
in
    Transformed

 


Note: Check this link to learn how to use my query.
Check this link if you don't know how to provide sample data.

wdx223_Daniel
Super User
Super User

NewStep=Table.Combine(Table.Group(YourCurrentUnpivotedTable,"Column1",{"n",each Table.AddColumn(Table.Skip(_),"Prod",(x)=>_{0}[Column1])},0,(x,y)=>Byte.From(y="Prod"))[n])

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