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woofy
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Options for File-based reports

I have:

 

1. A Report

2. Multiple XLXS files upon which the report was built.  These will be renewed periodically in order to update the report content. 

 

I want to publish the report, but I want to locate the files in some form of centralized, non-local storage to which the Service will have access when the report is published.  This will mean I think editing the source of the queries to point to the files in the centralized non-local storage.  (The consultant that created the report created them with the files in c:\users\consultantname\foo). 

 

What is the best solution for doing this?  Everything I have tried seems to be a good solution when STARTING A NEW REPORT... not where the files exist.

 

Out use case is simple.  Files are being dropped from a source system.  Users need to put them somewhere and we will want to refresh the report periodically based on the new files.  We will automate moving the data at a later time. 

 

We have O365.  Sharepoint and Data Lake are options.  Just need to get on the right track.  Appreciate any help you can lend. 

 

woof!

 

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Icey
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Hi @woofy ,

Do you mean that you want to change the data sources after reports have been created?

If so, you can refer to this video: How to change Data source setting in Power bi.

 

Best Regards,
Icey

 

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