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Cnoseworthy
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9 years ago
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Hi there!   I am a new user of Power BI and I am wondering if I can connect to an excel document I have stored on Box.com as a source of data.  I see sharepoint, and one drive - but no option for B...
  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    9 years ago

    You should be able to do this in the Desktop but not aware of a way to do that in the service. I tried this in the service by selecting "Local File". It it allows me to connect to the file, prompted for user name and password (I used a Share link) but then it tells me that the file type is not supported (it is an Excel file and Excel files are supported). I then tried this in the Desktop and it pulled it in OK but seemed to bring it in as a web page XML document. So...use OneDrive?

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Greg_Deckler
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9 years ago

You should be able to do this in the Desktop but not aware of a way to do that in the service. I tried this in the service by selecting "Local File". It it allows me to connect to the file, prompted for user name and password (I used a Share link) but then it tells me that the file type is not supported (it is an Excel file and Excel files are supported). I then tried this in the Desktop and it pulled it in OK but seemed to bring it in as a web page XML document. So...use OneDrive?

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

How are you able to connect to Box file from Power BI Desktop?

 

It doesn't work for me.