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Anonymous
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Network Folder to Service using Gateway

Hello,

 

I downloaded the personal mode gateway for power BI. My locally saved files are uploading/refreshing accordingly but those stores on the network are not. 

 

Is there a way to map to the network via gateway in the service or desktop? Thanks

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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

If you can access your file / folder in the File Explorer(Or you can try to add a network location by right click in File explorer),  you can directly connect them in power bi desktop via excel/csv/folder connector, after you publish this report to power bi service, the direction should be exist in "Settings" - "Datasets" - "Gateway Connections".

 

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Community Support Team _ Dong Li
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Seth_C_Bauer
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@Anonymous Use the full path of the server/folder - you likely have the network drive mapped to one of your local drives. It needs to be the full path, not the mapped one.


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Anonymous
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Thank you for your reply! How do I map to the drive rather than locally?

 

Thanks, it's very appreciated

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

If you can access your file / folder in the File Explorer(Or you can try to add a network location by right click in File explorer),  you can directly connect them in power bi desktop via excel/csv/folder connector, after you publish this report to power bi service, the direction should be exist in "Settings" - "Datasets" - "Gateway Connections".

 

Best regards,

Community Support Team _ Dong Li
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Community Support Team _ Dong Li
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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