Creating a new column with a cell value

[Hamidrezaei]

Hi guys,

I want to create a column with a specific cell value which is located in the headline of the table, is there any way to do this? the picture below is an example of what I am trying to do.

I have tried this but it give me an error

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each {2}[Column3])

Thank you for your help in advance

[collinq · Accepted solution]

Hi Hamidrezaei,

There are a couple ways to do this.  The "easy" but brute force way is just to add a custom column to the table/query and enter the date.  Then, just trim out the rows you don't need.

A more "system" type approach would be to promote headers, making that date a column header, then unpivot that column.  Then, you would have to remove rows and promote headers and then rename the date to whatever the name is:

Initial Promoted Headers

Unpivot

Remove Rows, Promote Headers, Rename Date Field

[Hamidrezaei]

Hi @collinq 

The problem with the unpivoting is that the date is changed every day , so the column name is not recognized the next day. Is there any other way to do this? 

[Hamidrezaei]

Thank you @collinq 

The unpivot works!