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John1
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago
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How do you edit a blank table in dataflow?

I created a blank table data source in a dataflow, and am trying to figure out how to edit it now. In desktop, the applied step/source has a gears icon you can select that opens a window to edit the ...
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  • v-yuta-msft's avatar
    v-yuta-msft
    7 years ago

    John1,

     

    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("fZRBrsMwC.....", BinaryEncoding.Base64)

    I can reproduce this. This kind of function will exist when you use "Enter Data" button in power bi desktop, however, it seems like dataflow doesn't allow user to change data they entered currently. I would suggest you to submit your idea here. As a workaround, you can create a blank query and use power query language below to generate or modify a table:

    let
  Source = Table.FromRecords({  
            [CustomerID = 1, Name = "Bob", Phone = "123-4567"],  
            [CustomerID = 2, Name = "Jim", Phone = "987-6543"] ,  
            [CustomerID = 3, Name = "Paul", Phone = "543-7890"] ,  
            [CustomerID = 4, Name = "Ringo", Phone = "232-1550"]  
      })
in
  Source

     

     

    Regards,

    Jimmy Tao

John1's avatar
John1
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago

Advanced Editor pulls up the M Query editer, but not a table editor to change the data on the table. You see this, not the table data within the Binary.FromText function...

 

let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("fZRBrsMwC.....", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = (type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true] in type table ....

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GilbertQ
Super User
7 years ago

Hi there

 

You could click on Source and then the Gear Icon to bring up the original table?