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saydu338
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retrieve data based on field

CLIENT IDPARENT IDCLIENT COUNTRYPARENT COUNTRY (New Column)
12345678UKFR
5678nullFRnull
91015678ITAFR

 

Hello,

 

Hope that you can help out here, as I could not find answer online.

 

As you can see certain of my client ID have parent ID, I would like to create a new column as presented above that can find me the country location of the parent. I would like to do this by adding a custom column in power query.

 

hope the table is self explanatory,

 

Thank you

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v-juanli-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @saydu338 

Is any answer helpful?

If it is sloved, could you kindly accept it as a solution to close this case and help the other members find it more quickly?
If not, please feel free to let me know.
To get a better performance, could you accept a calculated column/measure using DAX outside the power query?
 
Best Regards
Maggie
edhans
Super User
Super User

Try this code. It returns the following data:

 

 

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQyNlHSUTI1M7cAUqHeSrE60TBeXmlODpByCwILWhoaGCJUeoY4KsXGAgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"CLIENT ID" = _t, #"PARENT ID" = _t, #"CLIENT COUNTRY" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"CLIENT ID", Int64.Type}, {"PARENT ID", Int64.Type}, {"CLIENT COUNTRY", type text}}),
    #"Added Parent Country" = 
        Table.AddColumn(
            #"Changed Type",
            "Parent Country",
            each
            let
                varParentID = [PARENT ID]
            in
                try Table.SelectRows(
                        #"Changed Type", 
                        each [CLIENT ID] = varParentID)[CLIENT COUNTRY]{0}
                otherwise null,
                type text
        )
        
in
    #"Added Parent Country"

 

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Thanks @edhans it works, however I can't load the data it takes too long because I have 250000 rows.

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is there a way to make it slower ?

 

thanks again

Try this method @saydu338 - I joined the table with itself.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQyNlHSUTI1M7cAUqHeSrE60TBeXmlODpByCwILWhoaGCJUeoY4KsXGAgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"CLIENT ID" = _t, #"PARENT ID" = _t, #"CLIENT COUNTRY" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"CLIENT ID", Int64.Type}, {"PARENT ID", Int64.Type}, {"CLIENT COUNTRY", type text}}),
    #"Self Join" = Table.NestedJoin(#"Changed Type", {"PARENT ID"}, #"Changed Type", {"CLIENT ID"}, "Changed Type", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
    #"Expanded Changed Type" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Self Join", "Changed Type", {"CLIENT COUNTRY"}, {"Parent Country"})
in
    #"Expanded Changed Type"


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