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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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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 ...
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    v-lid-msft
    6 years ago

    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
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Anonymous
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6 years ago

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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6 years ago

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

 

Thanks, it's very appreciated

  • v-lid-msft's avatar
    v-lid-msft
    Community Support
    6 years ago

    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.