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Anonymous
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Expression Error: The Type specified wasn't recognized. Dataflow Cust Function

Good Day, I created a function in PBI Desktop Query Editor. and it works fine to process the files. Then I copied this function in a Dataflow which was okay. but when I invoke the function in the dataflow to add a New column, and pass the required input which is binary content; I get this error. I tried googling but couldn;t find anything useful. 
Would really appreciate if anyone can advise how to fix this.

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try without the "as table"  part

 

(Filebinary) =>

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lbendlin
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what type did you specify?  Please show the relevant bits of your Power Query code.

Anonymous
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Hi, here's the power query code:

(Filebinary as binary) as table=>

let
Source = Excel.Workbook(Filebinary),

#"Cost_Sheet" = Source{[Item="Cost Info",Kind="Sheet"]}[Data],

#"Removed Top Rows" = Table.Skip(#"Cash_Sheet",91),

#"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Removed Top Rows",{"Column2", "Column3", "Column4", "Column5", "Column6", "Column7"}),

#"Kept Range of Rows" = Table.Range(#"Removed Other Columns",0,3),

#"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Kept Range of Rows", [PromoteAllScalars=true]),

in
#"Promoted Headers"

 

try without the "as table"  part

 

(Filebinary) =>

Anonymous
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many thanks @lbendlin The trick worked in Dataflow. 

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