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Topic ==>	Custom functions (3 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Power BI training

Use a custom function to combine all of the worksheets in a workbook

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file.

The above workbook contains one worksheet for each film certificate rating:

Each worksheet contains a different set of films.

The aim of this exercise is to combine all the films together:

The aim of the exercise is to create a list of worksheet names, then separately load date from one worksheet, and finally run this query to load data for each of the worksheets in the original list.

If you're feeling brave, try solving this without the instructions below!

Load up any one of the worksheets, then duplicate this query and rename the results:

You should end up with two identical queries like this.

Delete all but the first step from your List of worksheets query to derive a list of the worksheet names only:

You'll need to remove the other columns and rename this one.

Create a parameter to hold a typical worksheet name:

Here we've chosen to set the parameter value to be U initially, but you could choose any valid worksheet name.

Change the query Loading a worksheet data so that it references your parameter, then create a custom function from this query.

Test that your function works by invoking it

If this doesn't work, check that you've made your parameter have data type Text.

Now apply your custom function to your list of worksheet names, and expand out the results. You may well get errors for some certificates:

Once you've expanded the table resulting from running the custom function and sorted the results by film title, you may well get this.

See if you can solve this (clue: you'll need to go back to the Loading a worksheet data query and amend the Changed Type final step).

Make sure that your final query containing the list of combined films is the only one which loads into your Power BI report, then use this to create a simple chart to prove the data looks sensible:

This looks plausible!

Save this query as Reunited films, then close it down.

You can unzip this file to see the answers to this exercise, although please remember this is for your personal use only.

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From:	alialgarrous
When:	06 Jul 22 at 13:53

Reply to alialgarrous

Hello

Can someone explain to me what does this mean?

Change the query Loading a worksheet data so that it references your parameter, then create a custom function from this query.

Regards,

Ali

From:	Andy B
When:	06 Jul 22 at 14:34

Reply to Andy B

To learn about custom functions, alas, you would need to attend our two-day Advanced Power BI Data course! But thanks for the help yesterday in trying to solve the other problem with our website.

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