Re: Question for Automated Updates

BrandonPruitt · ‎11-27-2023

I have a theory, but I am looking for resources to help me flush out my idea to see if it can even be done.

I get daily reports automatically emailed to me containing the data I use for the PBI I built.
I want to use Power Automate to dump those attachments into a Sharepoint location, then;
Have Power BI automatically evaluate the "Folder" on Sharepoint whenever I "refresh data" and add any files within that folder to the data set.

There might be something already built into PBI that allows for this, but I can't find it w/ my Google Searching.

Does anyone have a resource you can point me at that might walk me through how I would set this up?

parry2k · ‎11-27-2023

@BrandonPruitt there are multiple blog posts on how to combine files from SharePoint/one drive folders, Power Automate should be easy and I'm sure there are blog posts around that as well.

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