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Anonymous
3 years agoNot applicable
Transform File pulling data from other tab
Hi, I have a power bi file that is pulling data from thousands of excel files. I want the BI to pull a certain tab all with the same name in all the files. It works in most cases but there are a...
- 3 years ago
Basing on just the M Script itself, your query shouldn't be pulling data other than from Final_Payment HW. In fact if you change the item name into something else and it doesn't exist, the query would throw an error.
Below is a screenshot of a typical Source step with an excel file as the data source and the typical M script to retrieve the contents of Table in Data column in the first row would be = Source{[Item="Sheet1",Kind="Sheet"]}[Data].
Now if I changed the item name to just Sheet instead, that would result to an error as Sheet doesn't exist iin column Item.
lukiz84
3 years agoMemorable Member
Thats very strange. Can you show a picture of the excel tab in the file where it's pulling "Payment HW" from?