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Power Query in Excel

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Hi:

I'd like to use Power Query in Excel to find Business Central tables just like we can in Power BI.

But, I don't see a list of tables -- only fields for Web Service URLs.

Can you use Power Query in Excel to find tables?

Thanks!

John

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    YUN ZHU 73,110 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: Power Query in Exvel

    Hi, yes, as far as I know, the BC connector in Power BI is not included in Excel and can only be connected using Odata feed.

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    Of course, you can also synchronize data to Azure service or Dataverse, and then read data from there which is a bit troublesome.

    Or you can try the following interesting feature.

    Set Business Central data to show in Excel Organization Data Types Gallery (Featured tables in Power BI)

    https://yzhums.com/25234/

    Hope this helps.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

  • Inge M. Bruvik Profile Picture
    Inge M. Bruvik 32,748 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: Power Query in Exvel

    If you are running Business Central online you can not access the database tables directly only the API's and webservice.

    If you are running BC On -prem you can connect to the SQL server from Excel.

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