Add Multiple Values in Column per ID

[Kureigu]

Hi,

I have a table of IDs that derive from another table, I need to add a list of values for each ID (years) so that I can summarise data into a table for each year. The years are as a list in another table. Can do this either in PowerQuery or PowerBi, whichever makes sense... (I assumed the former, but haven't had any luck with either so far).

Essentially I have this:

ID
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

And i need this:

ID	AY
1	2017
1	2018
1	2019
1	2020
2	2017
2	2018
2	2019
2	2020
3	2017

I assumed it'd be easy, I've found a lot of DAX to be fairly straight forward so far... But apparently not!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

C

[parry2k · Accepted solution]

@Kureigu it will be easier to do in PQ, merge your ID table with the 2nd table which has the year on the ID column, and after the merge step, expand the column you just created and you will get all the years for each ID.

Something like this:

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[parry2k]

@sabilahmed what is the final output you are looking for?

[Kureigu]

Thanks guys, I really appreciated it... I seriously doubt I would've been able to discover that solution without your help.

[sanalytics · Accepted solution]

Hello @Kureigu ,

Create an additional column and do cross join.

Refer the pbix file on below link

https://dropfiles.org/rEba7WTm

Regards

sanalytics

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[parry2k · Accepted solution]

@Kureigu it will be easier to do in PQ, merge your ID table with the 2nd table which has the year on the ID column, and after the merge step, expand the column you just created and you will get all the years for each ID.

Something like this:

Check my latest blog post Compare Budgeted Scenarios vs. Actuals I would ❤ Kudos if my solution helped. 👉 If you can spend time posting the question, you can also make efforts to give Kudos to whoever helped to solve your problem. It is a token of appreciation!

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[sabilahmed]

Hello @parry2k 

Great solution. I was attempting somethjing similar with my example data set:

Table 1:

Product ID	Lifespan (Years)	Activation year	Purchase value
400	50	2011	£500
401	50	1975	£10,000
402	50	1950	£12,000
403	30	2010	£50,000
404	40	2020	£40,000

Table 2:

Year
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986

But there is no ID against the Year column in table 2. So how can I create the merge with the ID relationship. I need the exact same output in your solution buit can't do it without the ID key to connect the two.

Hoppe that makes sense.

S