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AdiKujan
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Power BI - Difficulty getting the data ready

Hi,

 

I'm often encountering the same problem when getting my data ready. I'll put a small example hereunder. 

We have a table which looks like this:

Date                -  CoworkerA  -  CoworkerB  -  CoworkerC   -  ...  -  CoworkerX
1-1-2018         -  8                  -  8                 -  4                   -  ...  -  6                  
2-1-2018         -  8                  -  8                 -  2                   -  ...  -  6           
3-1-2018         -  8                  -  8                 -  4                    -  ...  -  3           
...
31-1-2018         -  8                -  8                 -  1                   -  ...  -  6           

The "-" indicated a new column. The values are "hours worked"

I have no idea how to distribute this data into a more workable table like:

 

Date                -  CoworkerName  -  Hours worked  
1-1-2018         -  A                         -  8                         
1-1-2018         -  B                         -  8                       
1-1-2018         -  C                         -  4           
2-1-2018         -  A                         -  8                         
2-1-2018         -  B                         -  8                       
2-1-2018         -  C                         -  2                
...
31-1-2018       -  A                         -  8                         
31-1-2018       -  B                         -  8                       
31-1-2018       -  C                         -  1                     

Hopefully you guys have a solution or suggestion how I am to tackle these kinds of problems in the future. If there is a solution in Excel, that would also be fine. Because i mostly input data from Excel.

 

 

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This is a good test case for using 'Unpivot Columns' in the Power Query Editor.

 

Select all the 'Coworker ...' columns first, then choose 'Unpivot' on the Transform menu

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AdiKujan
Frequent Visitor

Just to make clear that I do know how to distribute the table manually. But with enourmous tables this would take way to much time.

This is a good test case for using 'Unpivot Columns' in the Power Query Editor.

 

Select all the 'Coworker ...' columns first, then choose 'Unpivot' on the Transform menu

Thanks! Will try this.

 

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