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RichaBansal
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the number of times unpivoting a row

Hi PBI Experts,

 

RichaBansal_0-1712061812129.png

 

Can we achieve this?

 

Many many thanks in advance.

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Joe_Barry
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Hi @RichaBansal 

 

With that exact data no, but if the Start and End Columns were formated as dates, then yes.

 

  • Add a custom column  to create month amount between dates

 

Date.Year([End])*12+Date.Month([End])-Date.Year([Start])*12-Date.Month([Start])​

 

  • Create a column to calculate Monthly Amount

 

[Amount]/ [Custom]​

 

  • Create another column called "Intervals" 

 

List.Numbers(1,[Custom])​

 

  • Then add another to create the months 

 

Date.StartOfMonth(
  Date.AddMonths(
    [Start],
    [Intervals] -1
  )
))​

 

This should help

Joe

 

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I think I missed a step. You will need to expand the list to new rows before adding the last step




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Joe_Barry
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Hi @RichaBansal 

 

With that exact data no, but if the Start and End Columns were formated as dates, then yes.

 

  • Add a custom column  to create month amount between dates

 

Date.Year([End])*12+Date.Month([End])-Date.Year([Start])*12-Date.Month([Start])​

 

  • Create a column to calculate Monthly Amount

 

[Amount]/ [Custom]​

 

  • Create another column called "Intervals" 

 

List.Numbers(1,[Custom])​

 

  • Then add another to create the months 

 

Date.StartOfMonth(
  Date.AddMonths(
    [Start],
    [Intervals] -1
  )
))​

 

This should help

Joe

 

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Hi Joe,

 

The start and end are dates. I got the list of numbers, but the Last column shows error.

RichaBansal_1-1712131774661.png

 

 

I think I missed a step. You will need to expand the list to new rows before adding the last step




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Worked like a charm 🙂

Thank you Joe. Have a pleasant day.

This will work only in case when Start and End are defined as dates. @RichaBansal, let us know if input Start and End are dates or just text "Jan" and "April"


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

@RichaBansal, in case you have input stored as text, try this:

 

Result:

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let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8krMU9JRciwoyswB0oYGIKAUGwsA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Start = _t, End = _t, Amount = _t]),
    Transformed = Table.TransformColumns(Source, {
        {"Start", each Date.Month(Date.FromText("2024" & Text.Start(_,3) & "01", [Format="yyyyMMMdd", Culture="en-US"])), Int64.Type},
        {"End", each Date.Month(Date.FromText("2024" & Text.Start(_,3) & "01", [Format="yyyyMMMdd", Culture="en-US"])), Int64.Type},
        {"Amount", Number.From, type number}
}),
    Ad_FinalTable = Table.AddColumn(Transformed, "FinalTable", each 
        [ a = [Amount] / ([End]-[Start]+1),
          b = List.Transform({[Start]..[End]}, (x)=> Date.ToText(#date(2024,x,1), "MMM", "en-US")),
          c = Table.FromColumns({ b, List.Repeat({a}, List.Count(b)) }, type table[Month=text, Amount=number])
        ][c], type table),
    FinalTable = Table.Combine(Ad_FinalTable[FinalTable])
in
    FinalTable

 


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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