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Jerush
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4 years ago
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Create a link to PDF on a server location

Hi All, I want to create a report based on a SQL query, and one of the columns would be a path to a PDF document that resides somewhere on a server. So it would look like \\myserver\myfolder\myfile...
  • MikeJohnsonZA's avatar
    4 years ago

    Hi, this is not really a Power Query question(Totally fine) but yes you can do this by setting up a web server.

     

    If you are using windows the easiest would be to use IIS(Apache if Linux), I found a setup blog (Build a Static Website on IIS | Microsoft Docs) once setup you can create a site to map the same folders and you will be able to add those links using an HTTP url.