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Update the location of SharePoint List data for Power BI Report.

JohnRamminger — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:36:57 GMT

Hello, I have a question about Power BI reports. I have a client that is building reports for their locations and they are based on SharePoint lists. They have roughly 400 locations. I have been searching for a way to programmaticlly update the data source location and have not been successful. I know about the rest API's and have tried these functions with no success. They all appear to be focused on SQL. Has anyone done this successfully? I realize that I could ask the client to move the data into SQL, just looking for options.

Thanks,

John

Re: Update the location of SharePoint List data for Power BI Report.

lbendlin — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:32:28 GMT

I have a client that is building reports for their locations and they are based on SharePoint lists. They have roughly 400 locations

Do they have 400 lists? all on the same site?

Re: Update the location of SharePoint List data for Power BI Report.

christinepayton — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:03:32 GMT

Not sure I understand the use case - are they migrating tenants or something? It sounds like they built the architecture in a really unsustainable way. I think absolute worst case if you don't find something better, you might be able to do that with Power Automate Desktop, since it can interact with the PBIX directly (assuming you have all the PBIX in one place). E.g. have it loop through the files, opening the query editor, 'send keys' to copy the text, do a replace text on the URL, then have it paste the updated code in, apply, add a delay for the load time, and send keys to save. The republish bit would be sticky because I'm not sure you'd be able to get it to select the correct workspace, but it's something? 🙃