How to change a Power BI file source from local computer to SharePoint

It's trickier than you'd expect to change a source reference in Power BI to SharePoint Online. Here's how to get the correct file path from SharePoint (the one ending in your file extension) and replace the reference in Power BI.

0:00 Intro
1:21 Uploading the file to SharePoint & getting path
2:35 Replacing path in Power BI

[UChiiL]

It Thank you so much Christine. I struggled with the file path for hours until I found this video...

[elenabrand]

Thank you for this video! Clear, straight to the point and solved my problem in less the 5 minutes ;)

[samcorp]

You saved my bacon again! Every other tutorial or instructions I found didn't include that last step to clear the same error I was getting. Thanks again!

[ghieroldan]

You are great teacher! I am running in circles here and came upon your tutorial for changing data source to sharepoint path… many thanks

[A.wong]

You saved me from redoing all my files. I’m incredibly thankful ❤

[TonBan-wb]

All the time I spent updating visuals after reloading data😂

Thank you so much, this saves a ton on time. 😀

[zackeryfrazier]

cannot express how much this saved me, thank you

[richardfrancis]

Thank you, Christine. This is incredibly helpful and easy to follow.

[davidkelly]

Thanks for this. I was fighting with this today and your video brought me back from the brink. Cheers!

[daenagovender]

Wow, this was so much easier than i thought it was going to be! Thanks for the fantastic explanation, it really saved me a lot of time at work :)

[dl]

Incredible vid. Answers in moments what would take a long time to read in a forum. Thanks!!

[Zypzu]

This was wonderful, thank you! Saved me SOOO much time!

[zanferris]

Worked great for me! Thanks for sharing!

[axelrudolf]

Thank you so much! You really saved my life.

[monkleto]

Exactly what I needed. None of the Microsoft docs explain this correctly. ty!!

[paulskelton]

Excellent.... the Gateway thing has foxed me for some time. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[dongdongzheng]

Love this short but precise video! Hope you get millions of subs.

[cesart]

Wow. Great video. This was super helpful and made something relatively difficult very simple. Kudos

[claudioherrera]

God Bless you! Thank you for the solution!

[JesseStratton]

Thanks! It is silly that Microsoft's internal workflows for this result in error. If I try to open a source and select sharepoint as the source it just errors out when attempting to login to the organizational account. Nice that this workaround is effective.