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hood2media
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3 years ago
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power query | replace value in 1 column based on content in another column - 2

hi, i have a situation where contents in 1 column should be in another column & vice versa.   for example, a column called 'Category' has "New Year Party" and another column called "Item"has "Coll...
  • m_dekorte's avatar
    3 years ago

    Hi hood2media 

     

    If there's just that specific instance you need to change around. so your data is like this

     

    You could transform that, retaining other record fields, like so for example

     

    Copy this into a new blank query.

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMlTSUfJLLVeITE0sUghILCqpBAo45+fkpCaXZObnATkhqRUlhkqxOtFKRuhSGBpBao2UYmMB", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [ID = _t, Category = _t, Item = _t, Other = _t]),
        Transform = Value.ReplaceType(
            Table.FromRecords( List.Transform( Table.ToRecords( Source ), each 
                if _[Category] = "New Year Party" and _[Item] = "Collection" then _ & [Category="Collection", Item="New Year Party"] else _ )
            ), Value.Type(Source)
        )
    in
        Transform

     

    Ps. If this helps solve your query please mark this post as Solution, thanks!

  • AjithPrasath's avatar
    3 years ago

    Hi, In that case , the replace value in power query editor will work

     

    Category= Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type","Collection","NY Party",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Category"})

    Item= = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value","NY Party","Collection",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Item"})

     

     

    Ps. If this helps solve your query please mark this post as Solution, thanks!