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anna2109
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Connect a workbook that changes name to a Power BI dataflow

Hello everyone,

 

I have a spreadsheet that is being located in a specific folder in Sharepoint. The content of the spreadsheet is every year exactly the same, however every year this spreadsheet is being re-created and saved with the same name but with different Financial year at the end. 

What I have to do somehow is to create a dataflow using the spreadsheet but I want the dataflow every year to get the data from the new spreadsheet with the new financial year. 

 

Has anyone tried to do something similar?

 

Many Thanks

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ppm1
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Solution Sage

You could parse the year out of the filename to create a year column, and then use the Table.Max function to keep only the latest record/row (then extract the contents of that to get your updated data).

 

Pat

Microsoft Employee
Syndicate_Admin
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Administrator

This is easy to do when you use the SharePoint Folder connector (which is generally recommended anyway) rather than any file connector,.

 

Buit - if this only changes once a year then you are probably wasting your time trying to automate this,.

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