Pivot multiple month columns

[acbg]

I have a dataset which comes across normalized with 3 different months under month column. 

This needs to be pivoted has columns in a table for users.

Issue is the 3 months changes. 

I cannot use matrix for end users as there are too many other columns needed.

I tried pivoting the  in Power Query but since the column names are different the reports fail. 

I tried pivoting the source and bring in the data and auto-renaming the columns using the actual month names in another table. Again this is failing here as its being seen as a new column.

Any one has another suggestion?

Thanks!

[v-frfei-msft]

Hi @acbg,

I made a sample as below. We can Pivot the Month column based on the sales column.

Here is the M code in power query for your reference.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8s3PK8kwVNJRAuFEpVgdJCEjIE5CFTIG4mRUIRMgTkEIgTSZopoFEjJDNcsIamMyqpARqlnGUBsTUYVMUM0yxrTRGNNGY4TrYwE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Month = _t, sales = _t, users = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Month", type text}, {"sales", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Changed Type", List.Distinct(#"Changed Type"[Month]), "Month", "sales", List.Sum)
in
    #"Pivoted Column"

For more details, please check the pbix as attached. If it doesn't meet your requirement, kindly share you sample data to me.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lx3zjix9gbf472i/Pivot%20multiple%20month%20columns.pbix?dl=0

Regards,

Frank

[ET4]

Hi @v-frfei-msft, 

Is it possible to achieve the table shown in the first image with a dataset similar to the table in the second image?

[acbg]

@v-frfei-msft

if we use the actual month name instead of Month 1 then it does not work.

For example: Instead of Month 1,Month 2, Month 3. Use Jan, Feb and Mar.

Then re-name the months as Apr, May, Jun. in the dataset and reimport it. M code works when we pivot it with new column names as Apr, May and Jun.

But the end graph/table in Power BI do not auto-recognize the change in column names from Jan, Feb and Mar to Apr,May, Jun.

It errors out as its unable to find Jan, Feb and Mar columns.

[v-frfei-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @acbg,

Based on my test, you should rebulid your visual here. As I can reproduce your issue here. Or if you just add rows in your data source, then everything should go well.

Regards,

Frank

[acbg]

@v-frfei-msft Thank you for the response.

I was hoping there is another way of automatting it.

I have the months changing on a weekly basis and would like for it to be automatted instead of fixing it each week.

Since I can't find a automatted solution, I have went back to calling the months Month1, 2 and 3 instead of the actual names.