Hyperlink for a locally stored document

Hi Anonymous ,

We can change the link to a format like "file:///C:/Users/User/Desktop/docX.pdf" in PowerBI, but this method has many limitation, it only works in PowerBI Service on IE broswer.

Please refer to the following steps:

1. In Power Query, use the Replace Value tool to replace all "\" to "/" and all " " (blank) to "%20" like below:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WcraKiQktTi0qjokpSc1MT02PiXFJLc4uyS+IifFLLVdIy89JSS2KiTHUK6koUYrVIV6HEck6jCE6YgE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}),
    #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type","\","/",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column1"}),
    #"Replaced Value1" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value"," ","%20",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column1"})
in
    #"Replaced Value1"

2. Use the following DAX query to create a calculated column:

Column = "file:///" & 'Table'[Column1] 

Then transfer this column to Web URL like below:

Then publish this report to PowerBI Service, we use IE to open this report, we can use the link.

Best Regards,

Teige