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Connect to web data source like a folder?
I have some files published using apache and I am accessing them in Power BI with a Web connector. This works fine as long as I know the exact name of the file I want. But in some cases I need to imp...
Hi Gitouttatown,
Have you found the solution? I have the same problem getting all files in our server folder. Thank you.
Grace Zhang
Hi Grace- sorry for the very delayed reply. I didn't find a solution in the way I hoped. Ultimately I solved the problem by algorithmically generating all the file names I expected I might find, and then querying for each and doing error handling for items not found. That is, I'm looking for files that will be generated each day with a predictable pattern based on the date it was generated. So I look for each specific file. It's more work, but it does what I need. I would still like to be able to get a list of all files that are actually in a folder on a web server but I didn't find that sort of soltuion.