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struggling with List.Accumulate and a Table Function
- 3 years ago
In case anyone happens upon this thread, or cares. Ultimatly I discovered that my understanding of List.Accumulate was generally correct, my error was in the Function being called, where it was effectively attempting to drill down an 'extra' time, where as the code above effectively was providing the correct level of drill down. I didn't happen upon this solution until thoroughly convincing myself (thanks Youtube) that I correctly understood 'each' and '_'. After that, and with some further testing, experimentation I realized what was going on.
As they say, if you're troubleshooting yourself, you're just workin'. 🙂
Also for the record the final code looks something like this, including proper handling for the 'seed' context of the Accumulate function:let FilterValue = "value", #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(ProjectData, each ([Data Type Parameter] = FilterValue)), //invoke the custom function to transform the tables as a NewColumn (maybe I could just transform the column in place?). Might need some error handling for the possibility of null tables or such, not sure. #"Invoked Custom Function" = Table.AddColumn( #"Filtered Rows", "FnIterator", each FnIterator([DetailedData], FilterValue ) ), //isolate the table from the first row to use a seed #"IsolateFirstTable"= #"Invoked Custom Function"{0}[FnIterator], //now combine all of the tables, starting with the seed table #"ListAccumulate" = List.Accumulate( //need to remove the first item from our list, since we're using it as our seed value List.RemoveFirstN( #"Invoked Custom Function"[FnIterator], 1 ), #"IsolateFirstTable", (current, state)=> //this becomes super simple, because we're only combining the list of things we already transformed Table.Combine({current, state}) ), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(ListAccumulate,{"id"}) in #"Removed Columns"
bumping this to the top of the list... 🙂