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Anonymous
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2 years ago
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power query

Hi All,   Am taking data from API and while doing it some time the table is empty so while refreshing the data am getting error that the column is not found since am expanding the column in later s...
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    Ahmedx
    2 years ago

    pls try this

    let
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://api.pilot.io/api/v1")),
#"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Source, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), {"getFile"}, null, ExtraValues.Error),
custom= if Table.IsEmpty(#"Converted to Table") then Dummy_Table else #"Converted to Table",
#"Expanded Column1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Converted to Table", "getFile", {"region", "active_connections", "max_active_connections", "days_to_check", "uuid", "potential_savings", "type"})
in
#"Expanded Column1"
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Ahmedx
Super User
2 years ago

we still need to figure out what Dummy Table is returned here in case the table is empty