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I understand that you need massive links. You can do this with Sharepoint.Contents function in power query like this post:
https://blog.ladataweb.com.ar/post/627427136962281472/powerbi-obtener-datos-de-una-carpeta-de
That post shows you how to navigate in sharepoint. When you get in the folder with the files check the last column. It is "folder path", it looks like:
https://[company].sharepoint.com/sites/[SiteName]/[FolderName]You can concatenate that string with the column "Name" containing the file name to create a download link for that file. That way you have create all link with power query conditions that can be used in the table as download. Like
https://[company].sharepoint.com/sites/[SiteName]/[FolderName]/file_name_from_column_name.pdfHope that helps
Hi. Yes you can build something like that. You have to be sure that the pdf link is accesible by the user. Maybe a sharepoint would do the job. The data should be something like PdfName | LinkToPdf . They are different columns and will be different in table too. If you add a link to a table you can categorize it as "URL" in format options for the column. That way you will be able to click on it as a link. You can also change format options in the table to use a little icon instead of the big link to the pdf.
You can see an example of a table with links here: https://www.ladataweb.com/informes.html?id=movie
Hope this helps,
Ok i Finally managed to do it throug a sharepoint
However as we have more than 10k invoices to link to this it will be complicated to do everything with this solution
Do you think we can do it through a local server ? We allready have all the invoices sitting somewehre on our Servers.
Thanks
Romain
Mmm... I'm not sure. Assuming the user already have a conection established to the shared local server. I'm thinking out loud now, if you use the file protocol to build the URL and that might work but it will open a browser and ask to download the file instead of open it. The feature will open things in browser. It might depend on how the user browser is configured because sometimes they open and read the pdf and sometimes they download it.
Hope this thought helps.
Regards,
Now with the file protocol i got a small windows, with a finger pointing on it when i click on it
However nothing opened when clicking. I think the issue is stemming from the file protocol.
i currently using
file:///10.64.17 etc
I think we are getting closed 🙂
Hi, Anonymous
According to your requirement, you can place your pdf files to onedrive for business and create links to access the pdf files, and insert these hyperlinks into your table, you can follow my steps:
- Place your pdf files to onedrive for business and create links to access the pdf files, like this:
- Create a table, contains pdf file name and links, like this:
- Change the [pdf] column category, like this:
- Show this table in a table chart and change the link visual, like this:
You can download my test pbix file here
And you can get what you want.
Learn more about adding hyperlinks (URLs) to a table or matrix
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _Robert Qin
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