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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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Updating a Changing Data Source File Name

Hi all,   I have a client's web folder where daily .csv's are uploaded. The .csv files are identical in structure - all that changes is date at the beginning of the file name, which is always YYYYM...
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    danextian
    8 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    I highligted the part of the code you were missing.

     

     

    let
Source = Csv.Document(Web.Contents(
    let today = DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()) in
    "https://https://www.clientsite.com/" &  
    Number.ToText(Date.Year(today)) &
    Text.PadStart(Number.ToText(Date.Month(today)),2,"0") & 
    Text.PadStart(Number.ToText(Date.Day(today)),2,"0") & 
    "_users_per_country.csv"), [Delimiter=";", Columns=2, Encoding=1252, QuoteStyle=QuoteStyle.None]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", Int64.Type}})

in
#"Changed Type"

     

    The use  of the code is to replace your URL with something dynamic while the remaining parts of your Source variable remain untouched.

     

     

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
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2 years ago

Hello danextian,

What about importing data from excel, where its shared and being updated daily, and the title changes daily with references to the date. What should i do to prevent a Power BI error when the excel workbook title changes. An example of how the change will be like is "Dashboard (1 Mar 2024)" to "Dashboard (2 Mar 2024)".

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danextian
Super User
2 years ago

HI Anonymous ,

 

Try this:

= let
today = Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),
formatted = Date.ToText(today, "(d MMM yyyy)" )
in "Dashboard " & formatted & ".xlsx"

 

This works if it i just the date format that changes. Other than that, it is a different story.