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PowerBINick
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Utilizing a shared Sharepoint Folder

Hello.

 

My goal is to create a dashboard that will schedule refresh without the use of a gateway. In order to this, I have been utilizing personal sharepoint files/folders for my data. Now I want to input data from a folder on sharepoint that someone else has shared with me. When following the same steps that I used for my personal files, but with the shared folder, all the data shows is "null". Is there anyway to do this?

 

Thank you,

Nick

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otravers
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Is the folder on SharePoint Online or SharePoint Server on premises? If it's SharePoint Online you indeed won't need a gateway.

 

It's hard to know exactly where porting your existing query to the new source fails without screenshots and code samples. I suggest you create a new query from scratch (i.e. from Get Data) that points to the SharePoint folder, then re-create or copy/paste the transformation steps from the previous query, if you're comfortable using the Advanced Editor.

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The folder is on SharePoint Online. I tried starting a new query from scratch and tried uploading the data from the folder, but the same problem with "null" data. Could you provide step by step instructions to uploading data from a shared folder (that I am not the owner of) on SharePoint Online to PowerBI? Thank you!

Here's a good resource:

https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/get-data-from-onedrive-or-sharepoint-with-power-query

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Hello, I already tried those methods to try to upload my data, but they provide the same results of "null". Is there any other method that I can upload data from a shared SharePoint folder to PowerBI and still use no gateway? Thank you for the help.

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