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Hello Folks,
I need your help in creating a global variable which will store a text value (known as access token), which will be used to assign a value to the headers in the Web.Contents function in my power query, As I am doing this because my access token expires in every 1 hour and I need to generate it manually via POSTMAN and have to replace that value in all queries as the data source for all queries are same i.e. web service, So I need to replace the access token value in all my queries every time I regenerate it which will takes a lot of time.
So, in order to replace the values in each query and I want to create a global variable which will store my text value and can work dynamically in all my queries and that needs to be changed at a single place rather than changing it everywhere.
I want expected result like below:-
let
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("URL", [Headers=[Authorization="variable"]]))
in
source
Solved! Go to Solution.
just create a independent qurey, say MyToken, and let it return the token text
then you can reference MyToken as variable everywere.
just create a independent qurey, say MyToken, and let it return the token text
then you can reference MyToken as variable everywere.
Thank you so much for your response, I have followed your instructions and my global variable is woking fine.
People like you are much needed in this Pbi community, Kudos to you and your skillset !!👍
Much Appreciated 🙂
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