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Data Sources with Data Gateway
Hi everyone,
I create reports on my laptop and saves those reports on a network share from our company. The data sources for those reports are also on the shared folder, but when I connect to those files Power BI uses x:\foldername\filename.
Our on premise data gateway is installed on a dedicated server which also has access to these files, but trhough \\servername\foldername\filename. When I publish a report it will use x:\ path and I can't add that same path to the gateway. But when I use the path \\servername\.. I can't connect to the files in Power BI Desktop...
How can I make this work?
The connection with \\servername\ in de gateway is fine. But when I publish the Power BI desktop with the \\servername\ path, Power BI Service still sees it as x:\.
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Hi Anonymous,
I'd like to recommend using parameters. You can create a parameter PathToYouStorage which you set in Power Query Editor to your x:\foo\bar\ and then you append the file name, see the screenshot.
Next, you load your file using the parameter like this:
let
Source = Csv.Document(File.Contents(PathToYourFolder & "fileName.csv"),[Delimiter=",", Encoding=1252])
in
SourceThen you publish you pbix to Power BI Service and change the parameter in the setting of your dataset.
More to this topic: Deep Dive into Query Parameters and Power BI Templates
