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JohnSwid
New Member
9 years ago

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...
  • masplin's avatar
    masplin
    Impactful Individual
    9 years ago

    Actually I managed to set up the new personal gateway so that i coud use the files on dropbox as a data source for a PBIX file

     

    I think thisis doing somethnig different? Coudl you just explain in what instances I woudl be looking to use this for futre refernece?

     

    Thnaks

    Mike 

    • ImkeF's avatar
      ImkeF
      Community Champion
      9 years ago

      Hi guys,

      thanks for these helpful different solutions! I've picked up some code bits from this thread and created a function that makes it pretty easy to grab files from a dropbox-folder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEVRO-Zc7pg

       

      This should be helpful for folks who are not so tech-savy and might stumble across this post.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        9 years ago

        Thanks a lot for your code Imke!
        But would you have a compact version of it? without the function parameters...

        Because your code is a function, the Gateway does not work. I get credential errors.

         

        I am loking for just the direct link, something like the first comment on this idea.

        But I couldn´t make it work this example in the comments...
        https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/6663925-dropbox (opens in new tab)