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Switto
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6 years ago
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Sharepoint list into PowerBI

Hello Everyone, I am trying to connect a list which has thousands of line items and more than 100 columns. Still, After removing the unnecessary columns, my refresh takes 15-20 min.   I have conne...
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    v-yingjl
    6 years ago

    Hi Switto ,

    When connecting SharePoint in power bi desktop, it can only connect to SharePoint Folder and SharePoint lists. Unfortunately, both of them could not connect the views instead of the lists. SharePoint Folder just show the files name, path, types and so on in desktop and SharePoint lists like what we have dicussed previously.

     

    Perhaps you can submit the requirement to ideas and add your comments there to make this feature coming sooner: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas

     

    Best Regards,

    Yingjie Li

     

    If this post helps then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

     

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v-yingjl
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6 years ago

Hi Switto ,

If you use SharePoint, even if you have removed unnecessary columns in power bi desktop and refresh it, these are still active in the background and will take the same refersh time because you just modify data in power bi desktop instead of SharePoint. 

 

Best Regards,

Yingjie Li

 

If this post helps then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

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Switto
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6 years ago

Oh ok..Is there any other way to reduce the time taken??