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Anonymous
10 years agoNot applicable
enterprise gateway refresh error
Hello - Trying to set up an enterprise gateway to connect to a server hosted folder of .csv files. With the new enterprise gateway, it isn't clear how to set up that connectionm. What I found to...
- Anonymous10 years ago
Hello -
I was tinkering around and remembered that Power BI sometimes has problems with .csv files. The formatting gets all messed up and it works better designating your .csv file as a text file and letting the query dilimit the columns at each occurence of the comma.
I changed the query to handle the files in the designated folder as text files and the error dropped. Data is successfully refreshing with manual triggers. Have a scheduled trigger in 5 minutes to see if that works, can't see why it wouldn't.
thanks for reading.
jwainz
10 years agoFrequent Visitor
Switching to .xlsx did work. Switching to .txt didn't work.
elsalvador182
10 years agoAdvocate IV
I had this same issue, not sure cause or why or if its a bug..i got it working as per this thread (hopefully the fix keeps working)