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Guidance Required: Load Multiple Subfolders as Separate Tables in Power Query
- Anonymous1 year ago
Hi SinghVikas27 ,
Thanks for raising this! The steps the super user shared will definitely help organize the files by subfolder, but it isn’t fully dynamic you’d still need to “drill down” again whenever a new subfolder shows up.
If you want a 100% dynamic setup (so new subfolders automatically become separate datasets without manual work), the approach is:
1. Connect once to the parent SharePoint folder.
2. Extract subfolder names from the [Folder Path].
3. Group by subfolder.
4. Turn your transformation into a function, then invoke that function for each subfolder dynamically.
That way, whenever a new subfolder appears, the query automatically picks it up on refresh.
Regards,
Akhil.
Hi SinghVikas27 ,
Circling back were you able to test the dynamic setup with new subfolders yet? If it’s still not picking them up automatically, could you share a quick example of your folder structure? That’ll help narrow down whether we need to tweak the query or add a step to handle edge cases.
Regards,
Akhil.