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irfantriatmojo
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Grouping data model

Hi Everyone

 

i have record like this 

Unique NumberResi Number
A001R001
A001R002
A002R002
A002R003
A003R003
A003R004
A004R005
A005R006

i wanna create a group of data who relate between Unique Number and Resi Number.

Unique NumberResi NumberGroup
A001R001A001
A001R002A001
A002R002A001
A002R003A001
A003R003A001
A003R004A001
A004R005A004
A005R006A005

A002-A003 is a group A001 because they have relation and A004 & A005 is a group by its own because they don;t have any relation.

 

how it can be in Power BI?

 

Thank you

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BA_Pete
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Hi @irfantriatmojo ,

 

The most efficient way to calculate and store this by creating a dimension table in Power Query.

In Power Query, go to New Source>Blank Query then in Advanced Editor paste my code over the default code. You can then follow the steps I took to complete this:

let
    yourTable = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcjQwMFTSUQoCUbE6yHwjGN8IO98YxjfGzjeB8U0gfFMY3xTCN1OKjQUA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Unique Number" = _t, #"Resi Number" = _t]),
    Source = Table.Distinct(Table.SelectColumns(yourTable, "Unique Number")),
    addNumberGroup = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Number Group", each if [Unique Number] = "A001" then "A001" else if [Unique Number] = "A002" then "A001" else if [Unique Number] = "A003" then "A001" else [Unique Number], type text)
in
    addNumberGroup

 

Summary:

1) Create a distinct list of your [Unique Number] field from your original table ("yourTable")

2) Add a conditional column with the grouping criteria

3) You would then relate [Unique Number] in your dimension table to [Unique Number] in yourTable, using One to Many respectively

4) You would use the [Number Group] field from the dimension table any time you wanted to display grouped values

 

This has the following advantages:

1) It passes the calculation/transformation work to Microsoft as part of the Power BI Service refresh process

2) It only adds a distinct-list table to your model to be loaded into memory, rather than a potentially huge, indistinct, calculated column.

 

Now, you mentioned that the grouping is defined by some sort of relationship between the [Unique Number] values. If you can provide further details around these relationships and if the logic is stored in your data somewhere, we can have a look at making this more 'automatic' as you have also mentioned.

 

Pete



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BA_Pete
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Super User

Hi @irfantriatmojo ,

 

The most efficient way to calculate and store this by creating a dimension table in Power Query.

In Power Query, go to New Source>Blank Query then in Advanced Editor paste my code over the default code. You can then follow the steps I took to complete this:

let
    yourTable = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcjQwMFTSUQoCUbE6yHwjGN8IO98YxjfGzjeB8U0gfFMY3xTCN1OKjQUA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Unique Number" = _t, #"Resi Number" = _t]),
    Source = Table.Distinct(Table.SelectColumns(yourTable, "Unique Number")),
    addNumberGroup = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Number Group", each if [Unique Number] = "A001" then "A001" else if [Unique Number] = "A002" then "A001" else if [Unique Number] = "A003" then "A001" else [Unique Number], type text)
in
    addNumberGroup

 

Summary:

1) Create a distinct list of your [Unique Number] field from your original table ("yourTable")

2) Add a conditional column with the grouping criteria

3) You would then relate [Unique Number] in your dimension table to [Unique Number] in yourTable, using One to Many respectively

4) You would use the [Number Group] field from the dimension table any time you wanted to display grouped values

 

This has the following advantages:

1) It passes the calculation/transformation work to Microsoft as part of the Power BI Service refresh process

2) It only adds a distinct-list table to your model to be loaded into memory, rather than a potentially huge, indistinct, calculated column.

 

Now, you mentioned that the grouping is defined by some sort of relationship between the [Unique Number] values. If you can provide further details around these relationships and if the logic is stored in your data somewhere, we can have a look at making this more 'automatic' as you have also mentioned.

 

Pete



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negi007
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@irfantriatmojo  You can create group in your data. Like below

 

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can it create group automatically? 

@irfantriatmojo  You can create a calculated column in this case. However, you will need to build a logic in your calculation like below

 

Group_Col = if (INT(RIGHT('Group'[Unique Number],3))<4, "Group1", "Group2")



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