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My web source has a dynamic date, I want it to always return today's date. I'm trying to create a work around to be able to refresh dynamic data in the cloud via BI but it's throwing back an error.
Code causing the issue (with example url https://www.website.com/data/date/date:2023-06-19😞
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://www.website.com/data/date"),
[RelativePath="date:"&(Date.ToText(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()), "yyyy-MM-dd"))]),
You've closed the Web.Contents function too early. The closing bracket/parenthesis for that function needs to move like this
let
RelPath = "date:" & Date.ToText(DateTime.Date(DateTime.LocalNow()), "yyyy-MM-dd"),
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://www.website.com/data/date/" & RelPath))
in
Source
In addition, trying create a Relative path with a : will give you an other error, something about the URIString not being variable.
That's why I added a step before Source where the Relative Path is created and then that's appended directly to the URL
Regards
Phil
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