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drakwen
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Relative Path to fix JSON import and allow auto refresh

Hi All,

 

After much research and reading a lot of posts I was able to use a base code and adapt it to my PBi needs, the current code merges all pages on a JSON but I am unable to refresh the database automatically due to PBi detecting the authoring query being already dynamic. 

 

I read that using [Relative Path = ] fixes this problem, however every time that I try it I get different type of errors. Would anyone be so kind as to fix my current code or help me understand how should I face this problem?

 

Many many thanks,

 

let

    BaseUrl         = #"API URL",,

    ApiKey           = #"API Key",

    EntitiesPerPage = 10000,


    GetJson = (Url) =>

        let Options = [

        Headers = [

          #"accept" = "application/json"

        ]

      ],

            RawData = Web.Contents(Url, Options),

            Json    = Json.Document(RawData)

        in  Json,


    GetEntityCount = () =>

        let Url   = BaseUrl & "&$count=true&$top=0",

           Json  = GetJson(Url),

            Count = Json[#"@odata.count"]

        in  Count,


    GetPage = (Index) =>

        let Skip  = "&$skip=" & Text.From(Index * EntitiesPerPage),

            Top   = "&$top=" & Text.From(EntitiesPerPage),

            Url   = BaseUrl & Skip,

            Json  = GetJson(Url),

            Value = Json[#"value"]

        in  Value,


    EntityCount = List.Max({ EntitiesPerPage, GetEntityCount() }),

    PageCount   = Number.RoundUp(EntityCount / EntitiesPerPage),

    PageIndices = { 0 .. PageCount - 1 },

    Pages       = List.Transform(PageIndices, each GetPage(_)),

    Entities    = List.Union(Pages),

    Table       = Table.FromList(Entities, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),

    #"Expanded Column1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(Table, "Column1", {"Id", "Department", "LoginName", "Title", "Email", "IsDeleted", "UserFieldValues"}, {"Id", "Department", "LoginName", "Title", "Email", "IsDeleted", "UserFieldValues"}),

    #"Expanded UserFieldValues" = Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Expanded Column1", "UserFieldValues"),

    #"Expanded UserFieldValues1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded UserFieldValues", "UserFieldValues", {"Value"}, {"UserFieldValues.Value"}),

    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Expanded UserFieldValues1",{{"UserFieldValues.Value", "EDM_ID"}})

in

    #"Renamed Columns"

 

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @drakwen ,

 

I have moved this post to the PQ forum, next time please post the content in the corresponding forum.

 

Best regards,

Community Support Team Selina zhu

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

daXtreme
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

That's a question for the forum on Power Query and the M language.

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