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hjaf
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6 years ago
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SharePoint list query alternative or optimization

Hello everyone!   Because sharepoint list queries quickly comes too slow to work with in Power BI, I have experimented with the query that sharepoint generates for excel. This is vastly more effect...
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    mahoneypat
    5 years ago

    hjaf FYI that I finally made a video to describe this approach, and am adding it here for others that may find this post.  It also gets the count of items and makes the right number of API calls.

    Get SharePoint List Data with Power BI ... Fast - YouTube

     

    Also, a reminder to mark one of these as the solution.

     

    Regards,

    Pat

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ElliotK
Helper I
3 years ago

Hi,

 

The problem I am having is our datasets have a column called FieldValuesAsText, which seems to contain nested records. Unfortunately, this is the data that I need to get to. 

 

I believe this is a re-ocurring theme. Whilst all of the columns are available to be expanded with the sharepoint connectors, this does not appear to be the case with the api / json method.