Promoting a single row

[Anonymous]

I am pulling several poorly formatted Excel files into PowerBi, these are pulled directly from a a machine so the formatting must remain the same. 

The table looks like the below: 

Start Time	End Time			Duration
14:00:00	15:00:00			01:00:00
		Product	Water
		Amount added	100

I need to create a conditional column for the start and end time of water so I can see it on a gantt chart or similar. Since they are not on the same row, I cannot do this.

I know how to do this via indexes, however since there are around 50 different examples of this, I don't think doing this is feasible. Are there any other methods I could use to achieve the result I want? 

[mukulthuwal · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous , please paste this query in your advanced editor & check if it works according to your requirement.

let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjSxMjAAIiUdJUNTOFMBig0MoUKxOtFwwYCi/JTS5BIQMzyxJLUILIyswDE3vzSvRCExJSU1BcQ3BJupFBsLAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Start Time" = _t, #"End Time" = _t, #" " = _t, #" .1" = _t, Duration = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Start Time", type time}, {"End Time", type time}, {" ", type text}, {" .1", type text}, {"Duration", type time}}),
#"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Changed Type", List.Distinct(#"Changed Type"[#" "]), " ", " .1"),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Pivoted Column",{" "}),
#"Filled Down" = Table.FillDown(#"Removed Columns",{"Duration"}),
#"Filled Up1" = Table.FillUp(#"Filled Down",{"Duration", "End Time", "Start Time"}),
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Filled Up1", each ([#"Product "] = "Water"))
in
#"Filtered Rows"

[Anonymous]

This worked however I have already pivotted the columns earlier so I cannot do it again. 

[v-jayw-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Why can't you pivot the table again?

Can you share more information like Query or Pbix?

Best Regards,

Jay

[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , can provide some kind of output you are looking for.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your reply, ideally I would like the end result to look like this:

Start Time	End Time	Product	Amount Added	Duration
14:00:00	15:00:00	Water	100	01:00:00

However if it looked like this ( this is what I was going for with the conditional columns), this would also work.

Start Time	End Time	Water Start Time	Water End Time	Duration	Water Amount Added
14:00:00	15:00:00	14:00:00	15:00:00	1:00:00	100