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AnassEss
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2 years ago
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GET DATA FROM THE ROOT FILE

Hi Dear Community   So I wanted to load an excel file to work with, but since my power bi will be used by multiple collegues in the enterprise, I wanted to make the power bi's data to be taken from...
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    danextian
    2 years ago

    Hi AnassEss ,

     

    It appears you are using the path that is mapped locally to your device. Instead of using that, why not use the full path? Power BI will not know the root path if you don't specify it in the connection so if you're using Z and he Y then you will definitely get an error when refreshing the report.

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AnassEss
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2 years ago

Hi danextian 

Thanks for the fast answer. So How can I use the full path instead of the local one to get to refresh the data in his device and in mine aswell??

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danextian
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2 years ago

I believe your IT admin would know the full path. In one of my past companies, I opted not to map a network shared drive to a letter as everyone else in my team was not consistent with what letters to use.

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    AnassEss
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    2 years ago

    Thank you so much,

    I will talk to him and see if we can figure out something and by the way I liked the cool phrase that you have in your bio: "Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand" 😄

    Kind Regards and I hope you have a good day