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Anonymous
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3 years ago

Test current executing context in M language

Hello everyone. I have a powerBi report which loads data from an Excel file, classicaly. But due to network problems (very slow from time to time), I'd like to get the Source Excel file either from...
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BA_Pete
Super User
3 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

You can add two sources into your query, then control them with a toggle query, something like this:

// toggleQuery
let
    Source = 1
in
    Source

// queryToToggle
let
    source1 = connectToSharePointSource,
    source2 = connectToFileSystemSource,
    selectSource = if toggleQuery = 1 then Source1 else Source2,
    otherTransformations = Function(selectSource, each doStuff)
in
    otherTransformations

 

Pete