Support relative path to excel/csv sources

[borlip]

Currently, when excel file is loaded to Power BI, the absolute filepath is captured in the M query. It would be nice if relative filepath was supported. Thus we could place excel file next to pbix and not worry about the file location (local machine, shared folder on server or onedrive)

[michael_gehrig]

Please add this!

[david_e_miller]

This is becoming a deciding factor in choice of BI.

[pbiideas1]

Indispensable feature when multiple people need to develop and development on a server is not a possibility

[pbi10]

My non-technical users constantly fight with this issue, it's consuming lots of our resources. We need a way to easily accommodate per-user pathnames at data query time. Thanks!!

[brian_radwanski]

It is beyond my comprehension how this seemingly obvious ask goes unanswered all this time given the consistent updates PowerBI enjoys. .\ ..\ following symlinks is not rocket science. And there is a valid use for this which the service does not address. Consider proof of concept design phases, or grassroots level projects that incubate innovation before online data services exist. I love this tool but the archaic design choices like this are unnecessarily annoying at times and are an impediment to user innovation.

[ficke_ja1]

Please support Relative paths. I loose a lot of productivity hours at the moment by not having this available.

[john_gilmour]

I have the same issue with Access files

[byefb]

Dudes, sort this out! It's killing me!

[denny_stanley]

This would be a nice usability feature. A simple checkbox on the file dialog box would suffice.

[steve_wrt1]

It would be useful if the addition of relative paths also made it easier to switch between data stored locally or in the cloud. Currently different commands are needed for files in the 2 places and the paths also differ because one uses \ and the other /!