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Error 404 DataSource.Error: Web.Contents failed to get contents using Excel file from Sharepoint
Hi guys, Yesterday i created a pbix file local in my desktop and used excel files as sources which located in our Sharepoint map location. During the load at the first time all the files were suc...
Hi all - I had this exact issue. The links would open fine, but PowerBI couldn't connect. And I got the 404 error.
Turned out the file name of one of the folders had changed, but it was such a small change I didn't notice it. So when I re-added the links, I suddenly noticed the file path was getting longer, and then realised what the error was! 😲
I hadn't noticed it because my Word doc. documentation had updated the link URL, but not the text of the URL, so when I copied it each time, I was copying the old URL, not the new one.
Hope that helps