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I am trying to pull items/properties from a SharePoint 2013 List using a REST API call. I cannot use the Power BI built in data source because over 8 GB of data is getting returned because of PDFs being part of the SP list. I would like to use the REST API call to limit which fields that are returned.
I came across this article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/working-with-lists-and-list-items-with-re...
And ended up with a Source like
Web.Contents("https://mysite.org/dept/sites/mysite/_api/Web/Lists/GetByTitle('mylist')/items?$select=*")
I have tried to parse the results as Json or XML or even CSV but the results do not make sense for what I expect. I do get results I just can't make sense of them.
What am I missing?
Thanks in advance, Scott
Solved! Go to Solution.
You shouldn't be using REST, you should use OData. If you set your filters in Power Query as shown in this link, https://marqueeinsights.com/how-to-data-mine-a-sharepoint-list-with-power-bi/ they will be automatically added to the OData call and filtered out. The process for SharePoint 2013-2019 and Office 365 are the same.
Hope this helps!
--Treb, Power BI MVP
You shouldn't be using REST, you should use OData. If you set your filters in Power Query as shown in this link, https://marqueeinsights.com/how-to-data-mine-a-sharepoint-list-with-power-bi/ they will be automatically added to the OData call and filtered out. The process for SharePoint 2013-2019 and Office 365 are the same.
Hope this helps!
--Treb, Power BI MVP
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