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thomasreick
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Question: Does "read N files from Sharepoint-folder" work for N=1?

Hello there,

I want to load one file only(!) using the Read-(and combine)-Multiple-Files-From-Sharepoint-Folder"-Functionality.

It seems that tis does not work for N=1, only for N>1.

Can you please comment on this?

 

Reason why I am asking:

on an unregularily base I receive 1 CSV-File that needs to be integrated into reporting.

Unfortunately the file name contains a date, which needs to be handled with a workaround before loading to SP-Folder.

I would like to get rid of this workaround and tried the Read-Multiple-Approach.

Do you have any idea(s)?

 

thx in advance

Thomas

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v-stephen-msft
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Hi @thomasreick ,

 

The "Read Multiple Files from SharePoint Folder" functionality is designed to read multiple files from a folder, and it may not work for a single file. However, you can still use the SharePoint connector to read a single file from a folder. Here is an example of how to read a single file from a SharePoint folder using the SharePoint connector:

 

let
    Source = SharePoint.Files("https://yoursharepointsite.sharepoint.com/sites/yourfolder/"),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(Source, each ([Name] = "yourfile.csv")),
    #"Content" = #"Filtered Rows"{0}[Content]
in
    #"Content"

 

Replace "https://yoursharepointsite.sharepoint.com/sites/yourfolder/" with the URL of your SharePoint site and folder, and replace "yourfile.csv" with the name of your file. This code will read the content of the file into a table.

 

Hope it helps.

                                                                                                                                                         

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

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v-stephen-msft
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Hi @thomasreick ,

 

The "Read Multiple Files from SharePoint Folder" functionality is designed to read multiple files from a folder, and it may not work for a single file. However, you can still use the SharePoint connector to read a single file from a folder. Here is an example of how to read a single file from a SharePoint folder using the SharePoint connector:

 

let
    Source = SharePoint.Files("https://yoursharepointsite.sharepoint.com/sites/yourfolder/"),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(Source, each ([Name] = "yourfile.csv")),
    #"Content" = #"Filtered Rows"{0}[Content]
in
    #"Content"

 

Replace "https://yoursharepointsite.sharepoint.com/sites/yourfolder/" with the URL of your SharePoint site and folder, and replace "yourfile.csv" with the name of your file. This code will read the content of the file into a table.

 

Hope it helps.

                                                                                                                                                         

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.           

ppm1
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You could parse the date out of the filename to create a date column and then you can either sort by that or use the Table.Max function to keep only the latest file. You don't have to use the Combine & Transform functionality on this one.

 

Pat

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