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jaw19883
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5 years ago
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Data Source

Very new to Power Bi, but not Excel. My question resolves around a changing data source. As a background, I am in K-12 education, so think of a gradebook and units in a course. My data source is an e...
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    jaw19883
    5 years ago

    I think I got it at least partially figured out. What I was doing was saving the newer version of the data source over/replace the existing one from the folder where the source was saved and then refreshing data, and thus generating the error. 

    What I did was inside Power Bi in transforming the data, I changed the source and that has worked thus far...Thank you for the quick response. I am going to continue progressing with my testing to see how far I can go with it and will circle back here if I run into something down the line. 

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amitchandak
Super User
5 years ago

jaw19883 ,Can you share sample data and sample output in table format? Or a sample pbix after removing sensitive data.

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    jaw19883
    Frequent Visitor
    5 years ago

    I think I got it at least partially figured out. What I was doing was saving the newer version of the data source over/replace the existing one from the folder where the source was saved and then refreshing data, and thus generating the error. 

    What I did was inside Power Bi in transforming the data, I changed the source and that has worked thus far...Thank you for the quick response. I am going to continue progressing with my testing to see how far I can go with it and will circle back here if I run into something down the line.