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nicolewells
8 years agoFrequent Visitor
Data Parsing? Awk? Excel? Power-BI?
I don't really know how to ask this question, I just know there's got to be a better way and I'm looking for any sort of nudge in the right direction. I have a custom report I've built into a Franken...
Stachu
Community Champion
8 years agofrom what I've read PowerBI should be able to do what you need
you will still need to provide updated location in case the file move - M can read all files from folder, so you could set up a flexible logic, but it will need specific input for references to work
FYI - from the data transformaiton perspective it can all be achieved in the same way in Excel by using Power Query (Get & Transform in Excel 2016), it's more how you set up the process than the tool itself. In a sense it's even more flexible cause you can use VBA to read the current file location and seek latest version of data source in the same folder