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Advanced M Editor in dataflow Gen1 stripping formatting
Hi JoshT ,
Is this hapenning when you do any specific action, like copy+paste from another Dataflow/Power Query, when reopening the dataflow?
I have tested on my side and was not able to reproduce this type of error, all the indentention I have added to my code remained the same after opening and closing the dataflow, duplicating it, adding new steps and other type of actions like that even after changin the indentation inside a specific step it remained the same.
Thanks for looking at this Miguel. The change above was manually typed in the editor, I am picking up from a colleague who used to own these dataflows so can't speak for how they were editing, though I believe everything they did was via the interface (i.e. not directly in M at all).
I have tried copying the query text into notepad++, but there are no hidden/unprintable characters showing. When I replace the four space indentation with two and copy back in, this is not preserved on save either. Without anything I can see in the global/project options, or the properties of the query itself, I think this is a case of the save routine doing something out of my control