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DidierTerrien
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6 years ago
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Get username in Power Query

Hi community The following post describes 4 ways to get the username in Power Query : https://querypower.com/2017/04/03/4-ways-to-get-username-in-power-query/ Unfortunately, the simplest method (n...
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Anonymous
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2 years ago

Hi DidierTerrien, really sorry to pop up to this thread so long after your comments, but I would like to know whether your proposal could be applied, with some improvements, to a report published on Power BI Server, or if it is only available for Power BI Desktop (I'm assuming it since it search for a local folder in C:\\.

 

Thanks,

Damiano

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    scottostanek
    Frequent Visitor
    1 year ago

    See my reply above. C Drive path did not work when published. (Unless I missed something) The Web connection to SharePoint did, using oauth2 on the gateway --it always returns the person running the report at the time.