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Power Query - Self Referencing Tables for adding comments etc
- Sep 27, 2022
davidmaddock54 The posting you referred to included one link (of many) to an article about how to create self referencing tables in PQ. Looking at your particular situation, perhaps the attached version works better for you. All is condensed into one query.
See if you can follow the steps, though it required some manipulation of the M-code. The key is that you create two Sources and merge one to the other within the same query.
davidmaddock54 The posting you referred to included one link (of many) to an article about how to create self referencing tables in PQ. Looking at your particular situation, perhaps the attached version works better for you. All is condensed into one query.
See if you can follow the steps, though it required some manipulation of the M-code. The key is that you create two Sources and merge one to the other within the same query.
- davidmaddock54Sep 27, 2022Brass ContributorOnce again, life saver! Took me a second to work out how to add the second custom step to create what you called "Source2" but once I got that, the rest makes sense.
Now I need to think about the ramifications of the data being editable by folks using it! - mollynoel98Sep 27, 2023Copper Contributor
Hello. I have been trying to create a Self Referencing Table with 4 additional collumns from my query / pivot table. I have gotten to the very end, however every time I import my merged queries, it is showing duplicate columns.
- SergeiBaklanSep 27, 2023MVP
Just remove duplicated columns in the resulting table and refresh. The won't appear again. If you merge correctly.
- mollynoel98Sep 27, 2023Copper Contributor
The problem is the table that it is duplicating is linked to my query as the "template" for how I want my page to look. If I remove the columns, then my query breaks. SergeiBaklan