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AliceW
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6 years ago
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URL link changes capital letters to regular ones after loading Power Query. Why?

Hello everyone,   I have a report which takes data from Salesforce. Each Opportunity has its own URL like: https://mycompany.my.salesforce.com/00abC   I've encountered one case where two Opportu...
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  • v-lionel-msft's avatar
    v-lionel-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi AliceW ,

    "And I couldn't figure out what you mean by the blank."
    I mean insert a space before a1.
    Actually for this problem, there are currently two possible solutions:

    1. Use M language

    https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2019/10/06/power-bi-and-case-sensitivity/ 

    2. Modify value
    Just like I did before, insert the corresponding characters in the column value to distinguish the column value.

    Best regards,
    Lionel Chen

     

    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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zelroberic
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6 years ago

Hi Alice,

I am also loading a Sales Force URL and I am having a similar issue. It looks look the issue is native to Power BI as DAX/the model is not case sensitive and Power Query is. So the model alters the letters when they are loaded. Not good for a URL!

I doesn't seem to me that a satisfactory solution was given. Did you ever resolve this issue? And if so what did you do?

 

Thanks,

Rob

  • AliceW's avatar
    AliceW
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    6 years ago

    Hi Rob,

    I ended up creating a new column using a basic

    CONCATENATE("https://YOURCOMPANY.my.salesforce.com/", [Opportunity  Internal ID])

    Salesforce was pretty clever - the internal ID of an opp is also its link.

    Hopefully it works for you too.

    Alice

    • zelroberic's avatar
      zelroberic
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      6 years ago

      Hi Alice.

      Ok this makes sense.

      I am actually in an Invoice table and it appears that the ID also has letters in it. I will speak to our Sales Force administrator to get more clarity. Thanks for getting back to me so fast. I don’t under why this issue doesn’t come up a lot when pulling information from the web.

       

      Thanks Rob

      • AliceW's avatar
        AliceW
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        6 years ago

        Cool, you have invoicing in Salesforce! I think the logic behind the 'Internal ID' is the same. I know I use it for Leads too.