Leveraging PowerShell to copy a Table in Power BI Desktop | Is this possible?

[Anonymous]

Hey folks - relitively new to PowerShell, but have been creating Power BI reports for a little while now. Here's my situation:

I have a colleague who does not have a VM, but created APIs via Python to bring in a bunch of data, and because he does not have a VM, he has to manually hit the refresh button on the PBIX file and republish to service once a day. This is all data regarding employee utilization.

Again, I am new to PowerShell, but would love to learn how to go about doing the following operation:

1) Navigate to SharePoint folder with PBIX File

2) Open that PBIX file

3) Copy 1 Table like so:

4) Open Excel, paste the table into new excel worksheet:

5) Save to OneDrive/SharePoint location

Is something like this possible? I know this is a very specific use case, but if anyone has any insights here, I'd appreciate any pointers.

Ps: My colleage had shared the dataset with me through Power BI service .. Am I jumping through unnecisary hoops here?

[v-xiaotang]

Hi @Anonymous 

Try using Dax Studio. https://daxstudio.org/documentation/features/export-data/

By the way, how about using python? you can take this viedio for reference, hope it helps.

https://www.thebiccountant.com/2018/12/29/export-data-from-power-bi-to-csv-using-python/

Best Regards,

Community Support Team _Tang

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[amitchandak · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous , there is code on how to export from table to sql server using python, you can try for SharePoint

https://pawarbi.github.io/blog/powerbi/python/sql/export/2020/06/23/export-powerbi-sql-python.html

or explore power automate