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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...
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masplin
Impactful Individual
9 years ago

Hi Imke

 

I set out to follow you instruction to use the App folder instead of a normal dropbox folder which seems to be almost impossible. Anyway i created my app and put some files in the folder.  However I got imeddiately stuck because you can't share an app folder.  We have multiple users sharing our BI dropbox and any of them might be adding new files tot the fodlers each month. So if the App folder can't be shared does that mean the only way to get new data in an App folder is to login to Dropbox as the app owner?  Just seems a real pain if thisis the case as otherwise your solution looks elegant.

 

I realsie thisis a dropbox questionnot a PowerBI question, but thoguht you might know if any way round this.

 

Thanks

Mike

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ImkeF
Community Champion
9 years ago

Hi Mike,

having difficulties to follow you here: What do you mean with "App folder"?

To my understanding you need to create an App in Dropbox to be able to generate an API-key. For the use in PBI you don't need the Dropbox-app explicitely, just the key/token.

The folder you can choose is just a "normal" folder in the dropbox.

But I might be totalally mistaken here, actually I don't use this myself.