melt

Transpose certain parts of a table.

Introduction

Use the melt enrichment instruction to transpose all the table columns that are not selected into rows. Enter the name of the column to keep as a column and all other columns are transposed into rows.

Creating the enrichment

For more information on creating an enrichment, see Using custom scripts.

Configuring the enrichment

To configure the enrichment, fill in the following fields. Required fields are marked with an asterisk (*).

Key

Enter the name of the column that you do not want to be transposed. To keep multiple columns as columns, click and enter the names of the columns you do not want to be transposed.

Variablefield

Enter the name for the new column that will contain the original names of the transposed columns.

Valuefield

Enter the name for the new column that will contain the original values of the transposed columns.

Variables

If the columns to be transposed contain a subset of variables, enter the names of the variables to transpose. Any columns that are not entered in this field will not be transposed. See Example 2 below.

Example 1

Enrichment configuration

Key

Campaign

Variablefield

Transposed columns

Valuefield

Transposed values

Data table before enrichment

Campaign	Ad Group	Clicks
Brand	media	7
Brand	ecommerce	3
Dashboard	media|social	18

Data table after enrichment

Campaign	Transposed columns	Transposed values
Brand	Ad Group	media
Brand	Clicks	7
Brand	Ad Group	ecommerce
Brand	Clicks	3
Dashboard	Ad Group	media|social
Dashboard	Clicks	18

Example 2

In this example, the Variable field is populated with the value Clicks. This means only Clicks column is transposed along with the corresponding values.

Enrichment configuration

Key

Campaign

Variablefield

Transposed columns

Valuefield

Transposed values

Variable

Clicks

Data table before enrichment

Campaign	Ad Group	Clicks
Brand	media	7
Brand	ecommerce	3
Dashboard	media|social	18

Data table after enrichment

Campaign	Transposed columns	Transposed values
Brand	Clicks	7
Brand	Clicks	3
Dashboard	Clicks	18