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Magnus Vegem Dahle
Brass Contributor
Jun 20, 2018
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Power Query Source from Relative Paths

Hi All,   I am making an analysis tool that uses two Excel file sources via Power Query. The tool work well, but as soon as the file and source files are moved to another location it stops working ...
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  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    SergeiBaklan
    Jun 20, 2018

    Hi Magnus,

     

    You may find the current file path putting in any cell of your workbook the formula

    =LEFT(CELL("filename",$A$1),FIND("[",CELL("filename",$A$1),1)-1)

    name this cell somehow, let say "FilePath" and generate absolute path in query like

    <prev step>
    FilePath = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="FilePath"]}[Content]{0}[Column1],
    FullPathToFile1 = FilePath & "Name1.xlsx"
<next step>

     

PeterHam's avatar
PeterHam
Copper Contributor
Feb 27, 2019

Hi Sergei.

Thx this works for me aswell...

An amendment would be to get files from a relative folder location instead of a specific file.

 

This is how I did this

 

let
WBPath = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="WBPath"]}[Content]{0}[Column1],
FullPathToFile1 = WBPath & "subfolder\subfolder2\",
Source = Folder.Files(FullPathToFile1),

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