Register now to learn Fabric in free live sessions led by the best Microsoft experts. From Apr 16 to May 9, in English and Spanish.
Hi guys,
I need a bit of Power Query magic. I have data from Excel files that has data for around many devices with time stamp. It looks something like this:
Timestamp DeviceName EmptyColumn Timestamp1 ....
Unix time Numbers Nulll Unix time
When I convert the Timestamp to Date/Time it works perfectly. And every Timestamp column has exactly the same value. So I need only 1 Timestamp column. What I need to do next is to unpivot the Device Name column so I would have it as a value next to the Timestamp and the numbers next to it. Essentially I need to have only 3 Columns: Timestamp with the time, Device Name with the list of the device names and the numbers collerating to the device on the 3rd column. Now I know that this can be done with unpivoting the columns. But I have 456 columns with every 3rd being empty. I also need to append the values after unpivoting them and this should be done dinamically (I really don't want to do this manually).
So far I have found that you can make something with List.Alternate, but I don't know how to append them, and how exactly it works. Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Jimmy
Hi @jimmybi
You may try to do it in Advanced Editor. Here are some references for you.
https://www.oraylis.de/blog/power-query-how-to-unpivot-a-dynamic-number-of-columns
https://wessexbi.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/unpivot-nested-headings-with-power-query/
Regards,
Cherie
Hi Cherie,
I saw those links and they are useful. That is where I got the List.Alternate idea from. However since I am using a folder as a source it gives me the folder column names. I tried to use them in the Advanced editor for the sample file and this is what I get:
And this is my M code:
So my problem is where to get the list from at the moment. Any ideas?
Covering the world! 9:00-10:30 AM Sydney, 4:00-5:30 PM CET (Paris/Berlin), 7:00-8:30 PM Mexico City
Check out the April 2024 Power BI update to learn about new features.
User | Count |
---|---|
113 | |
99 | |
80 | |
70 | |
59 |
User | Count |
---|---|
150 | |
119 | |
104 | |
87 | |
67 |