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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>

     

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SergeiBaklan
Diamond Contributor
Aug 16, 2018

I copy/pasted your code into PQ

let
    WBPath = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="WBPath"]}[Content]{0}[Column1],
    FullPathToFile1 = WBPath & "file.xlsx",
    Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents(FullPathToFile1), null, true)
in
    Source

There are no errors at all

 

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Rup231470
Copper Contributor
Jan 09, 2023

Hi

I am new to power query , and I want to convert my absolute path to relative path,

SergeiBaklan I used the same code and did not get any errors but,

It was giving me the null value as output

 

I gave cell A1 as the name WBPath and this is the code I am using

 

let
WBPath = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="WBPath"]}[Content]{0}[Column1],
FullPathToFile1 = WBPath & "file.xlsx",
Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents(FullPathToFile1), null, true),

  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    SergeiBaklan
    Diamond Contributor
    Jan 09, 2023

    Rup231470 

    Hard to say without the file. If to repeat

    Code:

    let
WBPath = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="WBPath"]}[Content]{0}[Column1],
FullPathToFile1 = WBPath & "testa.xlsx",
Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents(FullPathToFile1), null, true)

in
    Source

    Result:

     

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