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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...
I think this is the best one for us to vote on
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/6663925-dropbox
Ok so plan B. The out of the box method in power Query for querying a folder is create this big mess with sample files that is tremendusly confusing. Is there a way to just have a single qury that does the job?
For example I want to query these 2 files in a dropbox folder. The first step I see this
However if i click the arrows on binary it sets off greating the sample file.
Can I get round this with some code similar to what Imke wrote for dropbox? I assume it is a similar exercise but my M is too pooor to work it out :(
Mike