switching specific coulmns from vertical to horizantal to get one record !

[dankar]

I have similar to this table with many columns and thousand of rows (patients)

- as you can see each patient have 6 tests(test1 to test6) with different 6 result.
- all other columns have the same result.
- I need to switch the results from vertical to horizontal so I the table can show one record for each patient. like table2

I hope this can be done in Access 2016 and also if possible in excel also.
I think this can be done only by code, if any one posted the solution please explain the steps how to paste the code in access (I never made a code)

thank you and hope this can be resolved.


BEFORE:


TABLE1
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]FILE NO
[/TD]
[TD]RCVD DATE
[/TD]
[TD]COUNTRY
[/TD]
[TD]ID_NO
[/TD]
[TD]PID_NO
[/TD]
[TD]TEST
[/TD]
[TD]RESULT
[/TD]
[TD]REPORT DATE
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[TD]05/01/2018
[/TD]
[TD]USA
[/TD]
[TD]1234567890
[/TD]
[TD]ABCDEFGH
[/TD]
[TD]TEST1
[/TD]
[TD]NOT TESTED
[/TD]
[TD]05/25/2018
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[TD]05/01/2018
[/TD]
[TD]USA
[/TD]
[TD]1234567890
[/TD]
[TD]ABCDEFGH
[/TD]
[TD]TEST2
[/TD]
[TD]NOT TESED
[/TD]
[TD]05/25/2018
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[TD]05/01/2018
[/TD]
[TD]USA
[/TD]
[TD]1234567890
[/TD]
[TD]ABCDEFGH
[/TD]
[TD]TEST3
[/TD]
[TD]POSITIVE
[/TD]
[TD]05/25/2018
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[TD]05/01/2018
[/TD]
[TD]USA
[/TD]
[TD]1234567890
[/TD]
[TD]ABCDEFGH
[/TD]
[TD]FINAL RESULT
[/TD]
[TD]POSTTIVE
[/TD]
[TD]05/25/2018
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[TD]05/01/2018
[/TD]
[TD]USA
[/TD]
[TD]1234567890
[/TD]
[TD]ABCDEFGH
[/TD]
[TD]TEST4
[/TD]
[TD]NOT TESTED
[/TD]
[TD]05/25/2018
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[TD]05/01/2018
[/TD]
[TD]USA
[/TD]
[TD]1234567890
[/TD]
[TD]ABCDEFGH
[/TD]
[TD]TEST5
[/TD]
[TD]NOT TESTED
[/TD]
[TD]05/25/2018
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[TD]05/01/2018
[/TD]
[TD]USA
[/TD]
[TD]1234567890
[/TD]
[TD]ABCDEFGH
[/TD]
[TD]TEST6
[/TD]
[TD]PENDING
[/TD]
[TD]05/25/2018
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

AFTER:

TABLE2
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]FILE NO
[/TD]
[TD]RCVD DATE
[/TD]
[TD]COUNTRY
[/TD]
[TD]ID_NO
[/TD]
[TD]PID_NO
[/TD]
[TD]TEST1
[/TD]
[TD]TEST2

[/TD]
[TD]TEST3
[/TD]
[TD]TEST4
[/TD]
[TD]TEST5
[/TD]
[TD]TEST6
[/TD]
[TD]FINAL RESULT
[/TD]
[TD]REPORT DATE
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1
[/TD]
[TD]05/01/2018
[/TD]
[TD]USA
[/TD]
[TD]1234567890
[/TD]
[TD]ABCDEFGH
[/TD]
[TD]NOT TESTED

[/TD]
[TD]NOT TESTED

[/TD]
[TD]POSITIVE

[/TD]
[TD]NOT TESTED

[/TD]
[TD]NOT TESTED

[/TD]
[TD]PENDING

[/TD]
[TD]POSITIVE
[/TD]
[TD]05/25/2018
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

 

[Micron]

research crosstab query. If you need to base a report on a crosstab, you may need to worry about making the output columns fixed because the nature of a ct query is such that the number of field (columns) depends on the number of records that make up the column headers.
If the 1st image represents your actual table, your design is not sufficiently normalized (unnecessarily repeating data). If it represents a query, then maybe OK.

 

[dankar]

It's a query from view tables

 

[xenou]

PSEUDO SQL:

--create table [NewTable] with fields:
--	FileNo, [RCVD Date], Country, 
--	ID_No, PID_NO, 
--	Test1, Test2, Test3, Test4, Test5, Test6, [Final Result], 
--	[Report Date]


insert into [NewTable] 
select distinct 
	FileNo, [RCVD Date], Country, ID_No, PID_NO, [Report Date]
from 
	[OldTable]
	
Update n
set Test1 = Result
from 
	NewTable
	inner join OldTable
	on NewTable.FileNo = OldTable.FileNo
where
	OldTable.Test = 'Test1'

Update n
set Test2 = Result
from 
	NewTable
	inner join OldTable
	on NewTable.FileNo = OldTable.FileNo
where
	OldTable.Test = 'Test2'

Update n
set Test3 = Result
from 
	NewTable
	inner join OldTable
	on NewTable.FileNo = OldTable.FileNo
where
	OldTable.Test = 'Test3'
	
Update n
set Test4 = Result
from 
	NewTable
	inner join OldTable
	on NewTable.FileNo = OldTable.FileNo
where
	OldTable.Test = 'Test4'

Update n
set Test5 = Result
from 
	NewTable
	inner join OldTable
	on NewTable.FileNo = OldTable.FileNo
where
	OldTable.Test = 'Test5'

Update n
set Test6 = Result
from 
	NewTable
	inner join OldTable
	on NewTable.FileNo = OldTable.FileNo
where
	OldTable.Test = 'Test6'
	
Update n
set [Final Result] = Result
from 
	NewTable
	inner join OldTable
	on NewTable.FileNo = OldTable.FileNo
where
	OldTable.Test = 'Final Result'

The above assumes the insert query will produce distinct records, of which I would be skeptical without knowing more about your data ... so you may need to adapt the query plan or otherwise clean your data (it is, as Micron said, not looking normalized and therefore it is possible it will be more difficult to get correct results from it). In particular, it is entirely unclear what the primary keys are in that table, if any.


Note that if the purpose is just to view the data, a report, with a subreport, will probably do the job too.