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Elliottd
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Drop down list showing as "list" in Power Bi report

Hi Community,

 

I have a Power Bi report pointing to a Sharepoint online list. In the Sharepoint list, two dropdown cascade options are connected to each other.  When I connect my Power Bi report to Sharepoint and transform the data the fields show as a list without any data in them. When I look at the SharePoint list I can see data in the fields. How do I see the data in the Power Bi report from the SharePoint fields.?

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Thanks

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amitchandak
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@Elliottd , If you open that in power query you should get an option to expand those lists. There will be an icon near to column name. try that

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I seem to be getting myself a little confused now. I haven't used power bi or power query before. Any further help?

Thanks.

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Hi @Elliottd 

 

What delimiter do you select when extracting values from list? vjingzhang_0-1653448363850.png

 

I suggest that you delete the last "Changed Type" step first. Then extract values from list type columns. After that, change column data types manually per your need. 

 

Best Regards,
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