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How to combine SharePoint List from multiple SharePoint sites
I cannot share the pbix sample but I can provide the explanation of the code:
The code is designed to fetch data from multiple SharePoint lists based on the URLs and list names provided in an Excel file.
The first part of the code reads an Excel file. This Excel file contains a list of SharePoint site URLs and corresponding list names. The Excel.Workbook function is used to load the Excel file, and the Table.RenameColumns function is used to rename the columns to "Site URL" and "List Name".
Next, a custom function named FetchList is defined. This function takes a SharePoint site URL as an argument and returns a table of all lists in the SharePoint site. The SharePoint.Tables function is used to fetch the lists from the SharePoint site.
Finally, a new column named "Custom" is added to the table. For each row in the table, the FetchList function is called with the site URL from that row. The result is a table with an additional column that contains the SharePoint lists for each site URL.
This code is a common pattern in Power Query M language for fetching and combining data from multiple sources based on a list of parameters.
Hi jbrines thanks for reaching out. Can you tell me in which step you are getting the error? And yes it's possible to read the columns from SP list. Also, make sure you have replaced the necessary changes.
Hi rubayatyasmin see screenshot below.
If I can get this working then I won't need the code for all columns
J
Can you share the m code?
rubayatyasmin sure see below.
let // Get the list of SharePoint sites and corresponding list names Source = SharePoint.Tables("https://ourdomain.sharepoint.com", [ApiVersion = 15]), SitesList = Source{[Name="Site Sign In"]}[Content], #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(SitesList,{{"Site URL", type text}, {"List Name", type text}, {"Tenant Name", type text}, {"Site Code", type text}}), // Add a custom function to fetch data from the corresponding SharePoint list for each SharePoint site FetchList = (site as text, list as text) => let Source = SharePoint.Tables(site, [ApiVersion = 15]), List = Source{[Name=list]}[Content] in List, // Add a new column "Custom" to call the custom function for each row AppendLists = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each FetchList([Site URL], [List Name])), // Expand the tables from the "Custom" column into rows #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(AppendLists, "Custom", {"Title", "Profession"}, {"Title", "Profession"}), // Select only the necessary columns #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Expanded Custom",{"Tenant Name", "Site Code", "Title", "Profession"}) in #"Removed Other Columns"Hi rubayatyasmin any ideas on why it isn't working?