Cannot convert list in Excel Power Query Editor

Question

I am trying to convert JSON API response into a table in Excel using the Power Query functionality. I am currently getting the error below when I try to put the customerOrderHistory which is a list into a delimited list as I don't want to create extra rows for a list if I can avoid it.

If possible I would like to either

• Just print the customerOrderHistory list in the JSON format that it is in already into the cell OR
• Create a delimited list of the values as the lists only contain one entry at the moment

The JSON test file looks like this:

{
    "computerid": "1",
    "total": 1,
    "results": [
        {
            "computerid": "1",
            "customerOrderHistory": [
                {
                    "orderId": "1",
                    "channelId": null,
                    "agentId": null,
                    "orderItems": 1
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use Json.FromValue to convert the list into a Binary value, and then use Text.FromBinary to get back the string representation. If you can dig down deep enough to get to the customerOrderHistory field it would look like Text.FromBinary(Json.FromValue(result[customerOrderHistory])) .