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Pateen
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7 years ago
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Connecting PowerBI to a SharePoint Folder

Hi, I am trying to connect to my organisations’' SharePoint account so I can retrieve CSV files as a Power BI data source. I am using a SharePoint URL (i.e. https://mycompany.sharepoint.com/sites/G...
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  • Minseven's avatar
    Minseven
    7 years ago

    If you can see it (screenshot) you can access it!

    click Edit. In new screen > filter by your file names (Thats's why naming your data is important here) > Then combine your file:

     

     

     

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    Pateen
    7 years ago

    Thanks you Minseven 

     

    That works perfect

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juresti
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago

Hi,

 

I was also experiencing the same issue where I am connecting to sharepoint from powerbi online and it stated I may not have permissions to it or that it may have been removed.

 

It turns out that I needed to wait a about 5 minutes for all the servers to refresh apparently.

 

Now I have a completely online solution where I can connect to csv files in sharepoint from power BI online service.