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sshweky
Helper III
10 years ago
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Data source hosted on Dropbox

Hi,   I am using Power Query in Excel and need to pull in some data via a query from an Access file on Dropbox. If I add the local version of the file, other users can't use the file b/c they dont ...
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    sshweky
    10 years ago

    Can you please look at my URL below and see if I did it correctly because it still says "authentication failed". What is the proper format of the filepath?

    ankitpatira wrote:

    sshweky URL should be as below and you choose anonymous method as you already have api token specified in URL

     

     

    https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files/auto/{FILE PATH}?access_token={YOURAPITOKEN} 

     

     

     

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Kamal_PK
New Member
8 years ago
Make sure the file source path is similar to whoever access the files, like d:\Dropbox. I tried with my team it's working.
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Anonymous
Not applicable
8 years ago

no... I don´t want it working on PBI Desktop. I need it working on PBI Service, PBI Service cannot connect directly to Dropbox cloud. that is my problem: cannot make it work from PBI cloud to dropbox cloud.