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Open Attachment Power BI
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
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
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Hi
Many thanks for your input and help.
However, i'm not sure that working with a sharepoint will be the best solution
On the table i will have more than 10K lines and for each line it will be a different PDF, and on top that there will be new PDF every morning that the guy have to check.
So i will have to copy the 10k link from sharepoint and the table will not be updated every morning,
So that is why i'm more looking at a local server with name that i can combine with the pdf.
for instance the path is \\10.64.189.54\C\Invoices\10203040.pdf
In the file i will put a column with invcoie number
and another column with the path combine with PDF in order to make it dynamic
Thanks
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
That is working you Rock !!! Thanks