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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Data Sources with Data Gateway

Hi everyone,   I create reports on my laptop and saves those reports on a network share from our company. The data sources for those reports are also on the shared folder, but when I connect to tho...
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    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    So it seemed to be that IT denied my access to those folders. They gave me access to the folder and I was able to use the UNC Path.

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Nolock
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7 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

I'd like to recommend using parameters. You can create a parameter PathToYouStorage which you set in Power Query Editor to your x:\foo\bar\ and then you append the file name, see the screenshot.

 

Next, you load your file using the parameter like this:

let
    Source = Csv.Document(File.Contents(PathToYourFolder & "fileName.csv"),[Delimiter=",", Encoding=1252])
in
    Source

Then you publish you pbix to Power BI Service and change the parameter in the setting of your dataset.

 

More to this topic: Deep Dive into Query Parameters and Power BI Templates