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Anonymous
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Table.ToNavigatorTable function in Custom Connector not treated as a function in VS

Hi, im new to Power BI/power query and currently looking into some things I could create with an API. Wanted to test navigation tables according to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/handlingnavigationtables  The M function Table.ToNavigationTable() is within my connector:

 

 

shared NavigationTable.Simple = () =>
    let
        objects = #table(
            {"Name",       "Key",        "Data",                           "ItemKind", "ItemName", "IsLeaf"},{
            {"Item1",      "item1",      #table({"Column1"}, {{"Item1"}}), "Table",    "Table",    true},
            {"Item2",      "item2",      #table({"Column1"}, {{"Item2"}}), "Table",    "Table",    true},
            {"Item3",      "item3",      FunctionCallThatReturnsATable(),  "Table",    "Table",    true},            
            {"MyFunction", "myfunction", AnotherFunction.Contents(),       "Function", "Function", true}
            }),
        NavTable = Table.ToNavigationTable(objects, {"Key"}, "Name", "Data", "ItemKind", "ItemName", "IsLeaf")
    in
        NavTable;

 

 

However Table.ToNavigationTable gives the error "The name Table.ToNavigationTable doesn't exist in the current context" as it was an undeclared variable. I was expecting this function to work as for an example: Table.ToList?

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Anonymous
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Incase someone stumbles on the same problem working through the docs:

Solution at the bottom in the .pq file

https://github.com/microsoft/DataConnectors/blob/master/samples/NavigationTable/NavigationTable.pq 

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Anonymous
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Incase someone stumbles on the same problem working through the docs:

Solution at the bottom in the .pq file

https://github.com/microsoft/DataConnectors/blob/master/samples/NavigationTable/NavigationTable.pq 

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