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rajibmahmud
Helper III
9 years ago
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Power BI Sharepoint Data Feed

Currently I am getting 3 types of data in 3 different folder in Sharepoint Library of O365.

 

1. Sales

2. Management result

3. Share Information

 

This 3 type of data set is different, and I made seperate query for each of this folders to organize the data. And number of file changes periodically, so keeping this seperated is mandatory for me. Till now, I am manually feeding this to BI and publishing, which I am trying to automate by linking BI directly to the sharepoint. However, I cant find any option to segregate the folders in Sharepoint get data option. As BI takes Sharepoint Site URL and whenever I put this in BI, it automatically pulls all the file to the system. This is a problem for me as I need to point BI to specific folders.

 

Can someone help on this?

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  • v-ljerr-msft's avatar
    v-ljerr-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi rajibmahmud,

    As BI takes Sharepoint Site URL and whenever I put this in BI, it automatically pulls all the file to the system. This is a problem for me as I need to point BI to specific folders. 

    If I understand you correctly, you should be able to simply filter on the Folder Path column in Query Editor to load files from a specifice folder in this scenario. :smileyhappy:

    1. Click the down arrow ( Down arrow ) of the Folder Path column.
    2. Click Text Filters, and click Contains.
    3. Enter the folder name(i.e. Management result) you want to load files from.

     

    Regards

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  • v-ljerr-msft's avatar
    v-ljerr-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago

    Hi rajibmahmud,

    As BI takes Sharepoint Site URL and whenever I put this in BI, it automatically pulls all the file to the system. This is a problem for me as I need to point BI to specific folders. 

    If I understand you correctly, you should be able to simply filter on the Folder Path column in Query Editor to load files from a specifice folder in this scenario. :smileyhappy:

    1. Click the down arrow ( Down arrow ) of the Folder Path column.
    2. Click Text Filters, and click Contains.
    3. Enter the folder name(i.e. Management result) you want to load files from.

     

    Regards

      • v-ljerr-msft's avatar
        v-ljerr-msft
        Microsoft Employee
        9 years ago

        Hi rajibmahmud,

         

        Have you tried the solution provided above? Does it work in your scenario? If it works, could you accept it as solution to close this thread?

         

        If you still have any question on this issue, feel free to post here. :smileyhappy:

         

        Regards