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Advocate IIPersonal Gateway: On-Prem File Refresh and UNC Paths
For the benefit of other people, I put this question to Microsoft and received the following answer:
"The Personal Gateway does not support network access, so UNC paths are not parsed (even if they refer to the local machine). The Enterprise Gateway may support this functionality in future releases. The current approach is to put required flat files in SharePoint Online or OneDrive"
Chris
Community ChampionI have not been able to get a UNC path to work personally. Been a while since I tried, but no dice. I *believe* that I was able to successfully map a drive to the network path and use that but I would have to double check.
cbailissThanks for the reply.
It would be great if someone from the product team could comment on this (i.e. what is supported and what isn't).
At the moment I have seen nothing in the documentation that says whether this scenario is supported or not,
i.e.
Local Files = Supported
UNC Paths = ?
Mapped Network Drives = ?
Also, does the above vary by file type (e.g. under the covers, does the Gateway use the Access Database Engine to read Excel Files, which might mean the supported scenarios for Excel files differ to CSV/TXT files).
Thanks
Chris
Chris
- cbailiss
For the benefit of other people, I put this question to Microsoft and received the following answer:
"The Personal Gateway does not support network access, so UNC paths are not parsed (even if they refer to the local machine). The Enterprise Gateway may support this functionality in future releases. The current approach is to put required flat files in SharePoint Online or OneDrive"
Chris