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aspitalnick
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Help getting data out of a sharepoint list

I am accessing a Sharepoint list with PowerBi and the fields that have dropdown lists show up as [list]. If tried multiple methods to extra the single result in PowerBi but to no vail. The field is called Sub Chosen. If I click on the word [list] in Power Query is shows the attached informationPowerBi.PNG

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KNP
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Ok, so if you delete the step that was created when you clicked on the word in the list, do you see this icon in the column header for that column?

KNP_0-1664492717211.png

 

If you do, click on that and choose either 'Expand to New Rows' or 'Extract Values...'

 

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v-jingzhang
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Hi @aspitalnick 

 

If every list has only single value, you can add a custom column to extract this value. Use List.First([Sub chosen]). Then delete the List column [Sub chosen].

vjingzhang_0-1664526008614.png

 

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KNP
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Ok, so if you delete the step that was created when you clicked on the word in the list, do you see this icon in the column header for that column?

KNP_0-1664492717211.png

 

If you do, click on that and choose either 'Expand to New Rows' or 'Extract Values...'

 

Have I solved your problem?
Please click Accept as Solution so I don't keep coming back to this post, oh yeah, others may find it useful also ;).
chrome-9xf-Zagzel-B

If you found this post helpful, please give Kudos.
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