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Support relative path to excel/csv sources

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Boris Lipschitz on 08 Sep 2015 10:25:40

Currently, when excel file is loaded to Power BI, the absolute filepath is captured in the M query. It would be nice if relative filepath was supported. Thus we could place excel file next to pbix and not worry about the file location (local machine, shared folder on server or onedrive)

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Comments (85)

Ziv Leyes on 05 Jul 2020 23:05:21

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

I think it will be very useful to support relative path, this way, you can send a pbi file to someone else and ask them to place the source files in the same folder.
The query will be looking at it's own containing path as the local path. so if the source is somefile.csv, it will defaultly look into the current folder it's running from

Roan Isaku on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:22

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Any update from the dev team on relative paths?

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:54:37

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Absolutely necessary to make it comfortable

Marcus Custodio on 05 Jul 2020 22:54:04

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Would love to see this implemented... I have a report with several queries, and would like to keep each query in a separate file, which would then be stored in git. It would enable us to easily review changes to specific queries and rollback when necessary.
I could achieve that with relative reference to query files in the same folder as the pbix file is.

Mauricio on 05 Jul 2020 22:48:41

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Hi, I would appreciate this as well. It is very useful for deploying template reports in applications.

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:47:59

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Hi there,
I would appreciate this feature. We are trying to deploy a dashboard template with the data source in the same folder. For my teammates it would be very helpful, not to change the source path.

André Armenni on 05 Jul 2020 22:47:53

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

I cannot stress how important this is. Upvoted!

mira_bella on 05 Jul 2020 22:38:38

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

I agree!! It would make so much easier for my colleagues to update the files independently on their own machines... Wonder why isn't this working now.

Ivan Bondarenko on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:52

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Fully support, good idea!

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:23

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Sharing .pbix files is very frustrating when the first step is to go in and modify all the absolute paths.