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3 years ago
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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...
  • danextian's avatar
    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.