Forum Discussion
Connect Power BI Desktop to file folder on OneDrive for Business
- Anonymous8 years ago
hugoventurini,
There is an idea about this issue, please vote it up.
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19061959-enable-connectivity-to-a-one-drive-folder
Regards,
Lydia - Anonymous8 years ago
hugoventurini,
In the latest version of Power BI Desktop(December update), please enter the following URL in SharePoint Folder connector, this way, you can connect to OneDrive for Business folder in Power BI Desktop.
https://mydomain-my.sharepoint.com/personal/user_mydomain_com
Regards,
Lydia
hugoventurini,
In the latest version of Power BI Desktop(December update), please enter the following URL in SharePoint Folder connector, this way, you can connect to OneDrive for Business folder in Power BI Desktop.
https://mydomain-my.sharepoint.com/personal/user_mydomain_com
Regards,
Lydia
- hugoventurini8 years ago
Advocate IV
The solution proposed by Anonymous works, however with a serious caveat: you can only connect to the root folder of OneDrive, not to subfolders, which would be the correct and ideal. To restrict the query it is necessary to open the Query Editor and filter through the column that shows the path to the subfolder, which is what works, however, is inefficient. The ideal solution would be to allow connection to one or more subfolders within the OneDrive root folder, depending on the context of the project you are working on. Even so I am very happy, because it represents a breakthrough. I'll point it out as solved, but making clear here the need for an enhancement that allows access to subfolders. I will also test the solution proposed by yossifisch, whom I also thank for the help.
You're all amazing, thank you!- yossifisch8 years ago
Advocate I
I think my solution is basically what you just outlined, connecting to SharePoint and expanding restrincting the folder using the Query Editor.
- hugoventurini8 years ago
Advocate IV
Anyway, I left a suggestion to improve this feature so that it allows us to connect directly to the subfolders. If you deem it interesting, like me, I ask you the kindness to vote:
- hugoventurini8 years ago
Advocate IV
Wow Anonymous; thanks Lydia!
This is very important to small business solutions developers. I'll try this solution now in this morning, and return to confirm. - GraceGarrido8 years agoRegular Visitor
Thank you Lydia, but I have a problem with my user name. It seams that because my user name is [email protected] it does not work. We tried with other colleages who had no peroid in the user and it work...Any solution to that? Thanks again,
MarĂa
- yossifisch4 years ago
Advocate I
Replace the period with an underscore, firstname_lastname_domain_cl
See this page for details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/list-onedrive-urls