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mark_carlisle
7 years agoAdvocate IV
PBI Dataflows Folder data source & custom columns
Appreciate that Dataflows is currently in Preview so not expecting everything immediately. Could I just ask the following; Are custom columns going to be available as an option within the in fut...
mmace1
7 years agoImpactful Individual
Blast from the past here -
For loading all the files in a folder: I tried copying all of the advanced editor M code in a Dataflow blank query, but got the following error. Pretty sure that's because the Sample Queries that are also produced when merging files, obviously aren't present.
How did you get around that?
mark_carlisle
7 years agoAdvocate IV
That's correct you'll need to copy in all the individual queries generated by Power BI when combining files from a Folder data source.
- otravers7 years agoCommunity Champion
Yes. this is very tedious. I posted on the Ideas forum so that PQW automatically imports query dependencies, like happens when you copy/paste between desktop apps: