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Connecting to data source hosted on Dropbox
Hello PowerBI-Ites, Has anyone had any luck connecting to Dropbox as a data source. Couldn't find many articles on this topic. Here's one article that had a solution we couldn't get to work: h...
Hi gparrello I'm glad that it helped you.
Not sure what you mean that you have to type the column names yourself. I'm sure that you can work out some automated solution. If you need help, just start a new thread and I'll look into it.
Thanks so much gparrello and hugoberry for sharing your findings. Am I right in understanding that this will only work on folders owned by the Developer who generates the Dropbox app & access key?
I want to point Power BI at a Dropbox folder that's been shared with me. So I dont know the full folder path.
- mike_honey you are correct, you would only be able to access folders owned by the creator of the API key.
But, as far I know, you also own a copy of any shared folder (it's in your Dropbox path) and shared folders are movable (you can put a shared folder inside any subfolder of yours, it doesn't have to be in the root of your Dropbox).
I believe you could create a folder and an API key for it and then move the shared folder inside it.
