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4 years ago
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Checking file existance in Sharepoint with URL based on DAX?

Can anyone help me with the following? I'm building a report for an exported sales archive to consult old (Excel) data and lots of associated PDF files. The PDF files were automatically created a...
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    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    I created a workaround which gives me the required result. I created an extra column, which checks if an invoice number exists in the data:

    Invoice_available = if(data[invoice]<>"","Yes","No")

    Next I added an if-statement on the URL measure:

    URL invoice = IF(data[Invoice_available]="Yes",
    "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/archive/documents/pdf/"&data[Year]&"/"&data[Ordernumber]&"-invoice-"&data[Invoicenumber]&".pdf"",
    "")

    This shows a URL icon if a match is found, otherwise it remains empty



    Not 100%, but it gives the required result. 🙂