I have a sold items table. In this list, in addition to the name of the product, there are other expressions required by law - all on a single line.
In the second table I have the name of the products.
I need to merge the product name from the second table with the items from the first table. However, as the items in the first table are in the middle of a sentence, something like "product" == "%product%" would be needed.
How to do this merge in PowerQuery?
Example tables
+------------------------------+
|Sold items |
+------------------------------+
|Yellow bananas - consume soon |
|A box of small apples |
|Blue and yellow pencil set |
|A box of oranges |
+------------------------------+
+---------+
|Products |
+---------+
|Bananas |
|Apple |
|Juice |
|Pencil |
+---------+
Expected outcome:
+------------------------------+----------+
|Sold items | Products |
+------------------------------+----------+
|Yellow bananas - consume soon | Bananas |
|A box of small apples | Apple |
|Blue and yellow pencil set | Pencil |
|A box of oranges | (null) |
+------------------------------+----------+
Table 1
Table 2
Result
Add a column:
Table.SelectRows(Table2, (x)=> Text.Contains ([Sold items], x[Products], Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase) )
Then expand.
let
Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Sold items", type text}}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each Table.SelectRows(Table2, (x)=> Text.Contains ([Sold items], x[Products], Comparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase) )),
#"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom", {"Products"}, {"Products"})
in
#"Expanded Custom"