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Custom connector for proprietary file type
We'd like Power BI Desktop to understand a custom file format and for users to be able to select a file of that type and have Power BI Desktop open it (generating probably multiple tables). Were I'm ...
Hi Craig,
After a lot of tests, I'm afraid the Xml.Tables could be unsupported for now. Please refer to docs/m-extensions.md#data-source-functions.
>>> Currently, a limited set of data source functions have been enabled to support extensibility.
Best Regards,
Dale
Thanks Dale (many thanks for the lot of tests!). So no to the custom connector route. Is there any means of using a particular M/power query to load a file with a specific extension though (or something similar)? E.g. .xyz files open (get pre-processed, effectively) with XYZ.pq.
I've raised this as a feature request - also sounds similar to this other feature request re applying query to file based on some filename pattern.