I have a Power Query table with a column of values between 1 and 12.
I want to replace the number with a fixed set of values as shown in table below.
Period Number Period Text
1 Jan
2 Feb
3 Mar
4 Apr
5 May
6 Jun
7 Jul
8 Aug
9 Sep
10 Oct
11 Nov
12 Dec
I have seen a solution using List.Zip that "zips" these values as below:
periodNumber = Table.Column(#"Prev Step", "Period Number"),
periodText = Table.Column(#"Prev Step", "Period Text"),
#"periodRename" = List.Zip({periodNumber, periodText}),
The List.Zip looks like this. Inside each record are two elements.
and then uses them to rename columns by replacing with zipped values as follows:
= Table.RenameColumns(#"Another Prev Step", #"periodRename")
What other function than Table.RenameColumns can make use of this structure? Perhaps some form of Table.ReplaceValue?
My table has a column has 1000's of rows and is in a sequence like below.
Period Number
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1
2
etc
I want to replace all of these period numbers with their period text.
I like the idea of using List.Zip as it provides a dynamic list of periods, because sometimes the data will not have the entire 12 periods eg only 3 periods. Also the periods could also be quarters eg periodNumber = [1, 2, 3, 4] and periodText = [Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4] or years.
Is there some other way of using List.Zip to replace table values down a column instead of across table columns?
Note: The Period Numbers do not correspond to specific months. The start could be any month, for a 12 month period. So they Period Text will change. Hence need to get them dynamically.
