Date sits above column header

[nexus2004]

Hello All,

I imported and Excel file into PowerBi. The file has sales, sales commission and commission percentage data, broken out by year and quarter. The problem is the year and quarter date sits above the column headers (see table below). How would I be able to bring the date  from above into a column so it can be in a table format?

			202009 YTD	202009 YTD		201909 YTD	201909 YTD
Region	Type	Company	Sales	Sales Commission	Commission	Sales	Sales Commission	Commission
East	SUV	Ford	4,081	26	0.6%	5,979	55	0.9%
West	SUV	Ford	4,652	54	1.2%	7,703	42	0.5%
North	SUV	Ford	7,315	25	0.3%	3,058	58	1.9%
South	SUV	Ford	6,369	42	0.7%	2,188	65	3.0%
East	SUV	GM	5,265	11	0.2%	2,418	51	2.1%
West	SUV	GM	3,173	23	0.7%	6,691	23	0.3%
North	SUV	GM	6,972	64	0.9%	2,721	29	1.1%
South	SUV	GM	8,366	78	0.9%	2,666	81	3.0%

Thanks

[mahoneypat · Accepted solution]

Here is one way to do it in the query editor.  To see how it works, just create a blank query, go to Advanced Editor, and replace the text there with the M code below. 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("jZFNT8MwDIb/SlWpt6iKndZJznyd4MAGCFU7VFoFk9g6reOwf4/tMFptPXCoXTt+8uZNmibPcvP3oUVrY/a+vL0s0irEyeqkyPKVafLn7mPT77hcnvYdp5t+u293J/5btF/dcM4Z97ebYUizY5H9f1DU7trhKJMvrxzv+8OaU2VsADkccbAlFZxqE32UXGsvFkq/dXM01SiTFQcoUWhvvHWyhkrXiX7qD8fPS9wbB6KBScgJ7oytg2wZdMtf8UX/fY2TcRRHJS84GghCkmzpSltcO394VI+oIwDKYmIrUGm9kBJmfCvrDHhxiG7UJUMRxp6bc60w8eXKeak6X64Ie1Q4qmeY86xwYMfyUD5MYdKePmNyvPoB", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t, Column3 = _t, Column4 = _t, Column5 = _t, Column6 = _t, Column7 = _t, Column8 = _t, Column9 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", type text}, {"Column3", type text}, {"Column4", type text}, {"Column5", type text}, {"Column6", type text}, {"Column7", type text}, {"Column8", type text}, {"Column9", type text}}),
    TimePeriod = List.Select(List.Distinct(Record.ToList(#"Changed Type"{0})), each _ <>" "),
    Custom1 = #"Changed Type",
    #"Removed Top Rows" = Table.Skip(Custom1,1),
    #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Removed Top Rows", [PromoteAllScalars=true]),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Promoted Headers",{{"Region", type text}, {"Type", type text}, {"Company", type text}, {"Sales", Int64.Type}, {"Sales Commission", Int64.Type}, {"Commission ", Percentage.Type}, {"Sales_1", Int64.Type}, {"Sales Commission_2", Int64.Type}, {"Commission _3", Percentage.Type}}),
    #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Changed Type1", {"Region", "Type", "Company"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Extracted Text Before Delimiter" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Unpivoted Other Columns", {{"Attribute", each Text.BeforeDelimiter(_, "_"), type text}}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Extracted Text Before Delimiter", {"Region", "Type", "Company", "Attribute"}, {{"Max", each Table.FromColumns({[Value], TimePeriod})}}),
    #"Expanded Max" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Max", {"Column1", "Column2"}, {"Column1", "Column2"}),
    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Expanded Max",{{"Column1", "Value"}, {"Column2", "Time Period"}}),
    #"Changed Type2" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Renamed Columns",{{"Time Period", type text}, {"Value", type number}}),
    #"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Changed Type2", List.Distinct(#"Changed Type2"[Attribute]), "Attribute", "Value")
in
    #"Pivoted Column"

Regards,

Pat

[nexus2004]

Pat,

Thank you that worked! M code is a bit above my calibur at this moment. Is there a more slimpified way to get the same output?