This is well written, and serves as an example of someone who knows their field so well that they can explain it clearly in very few words. A rare gem in the world of Power BI blogs.

I could manually write a record like this:

recordFunctions =
[
A = A,
B = B,
C = C
]

Therefore, instead of referring to #shared, I can also refer to recordFunctions if I only want to use A, B and C.

Record.Field(#shared, [ColumnFunctionNames])([ColumnArg1],[ColumnArg2])

Change to:

Record.Field(recordFunction, [ColumnFunctionNames])([ColumnArg1],[ColumnArg2])

My question is, as I will build more and more functions, I do not want to manually type the above codes one by one. Let’s say I have my function names stored in a table or list, is it possible to generate the above record dynamically?

Reason of not using #shared is because Power BI Service online does not like #shared at this moment…

I have read your other articles previously when I just started using Power Query, and they were all very helpful. Thank you so much for your help and article.

Best regards,
David

Hi David,

I am not sure I understand your use case, but if you want to reference functions by calling it’s names, you certainly need to use #shared anyway: https://ssbi-blog.de/blog/technical-topics-english/the-environment-concept-in-m-for-power-query-and-power-bi-desktop-part-3/

Cheers,
Lars

List:
functionName01
functionName02
functionName03

Turn into this record:
functionName01 Function
functionName02 Function
functionName03 Function

Reason of doing this is because I do not want to use #shared.

Thank you so much for your help.

Best regards,
David