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Facing error when changing data source from excel to SharePoint
Hello Bella42,
Thanks for your solution. However I'm not getting what I need, or maybe I am doing something wrong.
In step 8 you suggest to select all the code that we have previously created (and is the code that "cleans" all the data that shows already my finished dashboards) and paste the new code we get after transform the connection with the file located in sharepoint... but what's happening with the old code? I need to maintain this code to preserve the finished dashboards I have when the data source was in local folder... if is the same you did, so you maintain the old code, how did you do it? I'm not sure from where and until where I have to paste the new code... I was trying to replace the old location by the new location in sharepoint but it doesn't work... it gives me errors...
and here you can see the new code and the old one together:
Could anyone help to preserve the old code so I don't have to work again on all the Transform data I did it previously?
Thank a lot
Ana M
Hi Ana,
From what I can see, the error you are getting is because you now have two steps called #"Filas filtradas". One from the old code and one from the new. Just pop a 2 on the end of the second one, make it #"Filas filtradas2", and change the previous step reference in the subsequent step ("Column quitadas2") to match.
so the new code in that section will be:
#"Filas filtradas2" - Table.SelectRows....
#"Columnas quitadas2 = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Filas filtradas2",{"Column22"...
It should work now. I also keep running into these glitches, it can be so finnicky, but still way better than having to recreate the transformations.
Good luck, thanks for reaching out, hope it helps 🙂 Claire
Thank you so much Claire, you are a master. I didn't see that... however my code is so long so it keeps me doing errors that I am solving step by step. But investing lots of time so my boss told me to find another way to connect the data from Sharepoint without doing all this re editing of the entire code... especially because we have about 7-8 different PBIs to do this migration... I will keep searching for more ways, if it exists!
Thank you so much and best regards,
Ana M
No worries, glad to help 😊
I migrated a dozen+ PBIs with numerous connections in each. I kept the SQL for the various connections in a word doc (e.g. I have several Excel lookups, and the connection+transformations is always the same), so I could just copy and paste the connection and transformations as a whole. I also did the PBIs all at once, and it became easier to prevent and spot problems. Took me about half a day to get them all done. I changed the query names to include SharePoint (or ShPt) so I knew at a glance which I have updated.
I think you have done the hard yards (working out what the hell is going wrong), and it should get easier, less time consuming, from now on. I haven't found an easier way. Good Luck! Kind regards, Claire