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Unpivot paired columns
- 5 years ago
Hello DDON
you can add a new column with this formula, delete all your S and F-fields and then expand the list to rows and then expand the record
let CreateNumber = List.Numbers(0,3), TransformToValuesFS = List.Transform ( CreateNumber, (item)=> [F= try Record.Field(_, "F[" & Text.From(item) & "]") otherwise null , S= try Record.Field(_, "S[" & Text.From(item) & "]") otherwise null] ), CleanNulls = List.Select(TransformToValuesFS, each _[F] <> null and _[S]<>null) in CleanNullsThis is quite complex you have to pay attention on the following
Adapt this number to your maximum numbers of pairs --> CreateNumber = List.Numbers(0,3)
Adapt this text according your standard naming of your F and S-columns
(item)=> [F= try Record.Field(_, "F[" & Text.From(item) & "]") otherwise null , S= try Record.Field(_, "S[" & Text.From(item) & "]") otherwise null]
)Here the complete code
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjLWMzDSMzJU0lFKTEoGkiCWERAbA7GJUmwsAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [DateTime = _t, IMEI = _t, #"F[0]" = _t, #"F[1]" = _t, #"S[0]" = _t, #"S[1]" = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"DateTime", type date}, {"IMEI", type text}, {"F[0]", Int64.Type}, {"F[1]", Int64.Type}, {"S[1]", Int64.Type}, {"S[0]", Int64.Type}}, "de-DE"), AddPairs = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Pairs", each let CreateNumber = List.Numbers(0,3), TransformToValuesFS = List.Transform ( CreateNumber, (item)=> [F= try Record.Field(_, "F[" & Text.From(item) & "]") otherwise null , S= try Record.Field(_, "S[" & Text.From(item) & "]") otherwise null] ), CleanNulls = List.Select(TransformToValuesFS, each _[F] <> null and _[S]<>null) in CleanNulls), #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(AddPairs,{"DateTime", "IMEI", "Pairs"}), #"Expanded Pairs" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "Pairs"), #"Expanded Pairs1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Pairs", "Pairs", {"F", "S"}, {"F", "S"}) in #"Expanded Pairs1"this transforms this
into this
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Jimmy
Hi DDON ,
1) Check columns "DateTime" and "IMEI" and unpivot other columns
2) Copy function to remove text between delimiters: Text.RemoveBetweenDelimiters function for Power BI and Power Query – The BIccountant
3) Add a new column where you apply this function to column "Attributes" (this column will be created by the unpivot action). This should return a new column with the desired new column names.
4) Delete column Attributes and pivot on the newly created column.