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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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Drew Forward on 06 Apr 2024 22:00:29

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Just ran into needing to use this today!

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Mats Schlünder on 26 Nov 2023 14:55:09

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

It really is a shame that this i not available yet after 8 years and thousands of votes.

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D L on 02 Aug 2023 13:09:17

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Please add this feature!

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Nick Gray on 19 Jul 2023 16:30:53

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Hitting this limitation in the case of pbix referncing xlsx on Sharepoint/OneDrive, and it's frustrating.

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MATTHIEU GUERIN on 26 May 2023 15:38:58

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

8 years after the first request, still not implemented.

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Yoshihiro Kakinuma on 30 Apr 2023 21:51:40

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Very shocked to know this is not supported!

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Shawn Eary on 16 Feb 2023 16:51:34

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Need this for CSV/TSV/PSV flat files also.

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Bob Harper on 13 Oct 2022 08:34:48

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Pesky analysts asking for complicated features like relative paths. Microsoft developers can't cater to every niche edge cases!

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Alexey Korovianskii on 01 Sep 2022 21:48:18

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

hmm, was really surprised it is not supported yet

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Rafael Vieira de Oliveira on 11 Apr 2022 14:30:47

RE: Support relative path to excel/csv sources

Please add relative path capabilities!As sugestion: “/” - returns to the root directory and starts there “../” - moves one directory backwards and starts there “../../” - moves two directories backwards and starts there (and so on…)To move forward, just start with the first subdirectory and keep moving forward