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JohnSwid
10 years agoNew Member
Connecting to data source hosted on Dropbox
Hello PowerBI-Ites, Has anyone had any luck connecting to Dropbox as a data source. Couldn't find many articles on this topic. Here's one article that had a solution we couldn't get to work: h...
masplin
Power Participant
9 years agoOk so I used your code and token I had got for the whole of my dropbox. If I put no folder path I get somethnig
However i need a folder that is several layers down Datamodel/3rd party Bookings/WCFMC
If i put in anything in the folder bit it errors
An error occurred in the ‘Query1’ query. DataSource.Error: Web.Contents failed to get contents from 'https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder' (400): Bad Request
Details:
DataSourceKind=Web
DataSourcePath=https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder
Url=https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder
Any ideas how to get it to read the contents of subfolders?
Thnaks
Mike
ImkeF
Community Champion
9 years agoFolder need to start with a slash: