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Tuan's avatar
Tuan
Icon for Helper III rankHelper III
6 years ago
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Shopify API - JSON Query Parsing

I'm a newbie at querying JSON APIs. I'm currently pulling Shopify api with read access. It comes into power query as a flat list. Is there a good way to break up all the Dimension and Facts tables or...
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  • mahoneypat's avatar
    mahoneypat
    6 years ago

    You should be able to do all of this in the query editor, and not need DAX tables.  Your approach to reference your initial query to make your other tables is a good practice, but there are some settings to consider when doing this.  This video has a good explanation of them, and their impact on the number of API calls made.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uKNNZqBIkg

     

    If this works for you, please mark it as the solution.  Kudos are appreciated too.  Please let me know if not.

    Regards,

    Pat

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artemus
Icon for Microsoft Employee rankMicrosoft Employee
6 years ago

I would advise against doing this. Each table in power query is created in isolation. So you will end up hitting the end point multiple times. To get around this, import the flat table, and use dax to create dimension tables. Use power query to add any additional calculated columns to help display the data.