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NickTT
Helper III
5 years ago

PowerBI and SharePoint Open File

I have a Power BI report that pulls file information from SharePoint. I want to use the following value as a WebURL type so I can have a link in my Report that will open the related word document. Cu...
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mahoneypat
Microsoft Employee
5 years ago

Just add ?web=1 to your url

 

Https://mysharepoint.sharepoint.com/sites/site1/documentlibary/mydocument.docx?web=1

 

Regards,

Pat

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    NickTT
    Helper III
    5 years ago

    I have, however my requirement is to open in the thick client first. Not the extra step of going to the web and then clicking open in desktop app. I know... it's not that much different but it is a few extra clicks that could be avoided if the URL worked like it does in SharePoint.