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Hi, I have a sharepoint url that contains a # (..\#210570 Electrotech - New Barrel Cellar\Quote..), when I try to add my source # is changed to %23 (..\%23210570 Electrotech - New Barrel Cellar\..), but I get a data source error, anyone has encounterd this error before?
Some characters are not allowed in the URL string. You need to convert them into corresponding Percent encodings. So space should be %20, # should be %23, $ should be %24, etc. Please check if there is any character being not changed correctly.
In addition, are you trying to connect to a file stored in SharePoint?
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Community Support Team _ Jing
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Hi @v-jingzhang , The file is on sharepoint and I have replaced # and spaces, I have succesfully used other files from sharepoint but for some reason I can't link the ones that have %23 and get the error as per the screenshot
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