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psychobunny83
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2 years ago

Renamining columns in Power Query for Dataverse/Dynamics 365 doesn't do anything

Hi everyone,   We use Dynamics 365 CRM, so when using Power BI it's the Dataverse data source we use.  I'm doing the PL-300 exam so been studying for that and using our own data to practice along. ...
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Greg_Deckler
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2 years ago

psychobunny83 I've had similar experiences. What you can do to fix is just bring them in and then rename the columns in the Data panel while in Desktop (not Power Query Editor).

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psychobunny83
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2 years ago

Thank you!  I noticed that does work, I guess I was just so stoked to use Power Query and have everything "perfect" before even touching the report builder so was disappointed that the very first legit report I try to make gets stuck on a basic rename columns step! 🙂

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    Greg_Deckler
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    2 years ago

    Well, psychobunny83 it SHOULD work renaming in Power Query Editor. Why it doesn't for this particular connector, I have no idea.