Power Query Reports

Are Power Query Excel reports able to be saved to PDF from Project Online BI area?
thanks in advance.

Hi Stev,
I'm not sure that I understand well your concern but...
If it is just about saving a document in a librairy, the answer would be yes: any document of any format can be saved in the BI center librairies (whatever it is on premise or online).
But if you want to know if you'll be able to refresh in the browser a Power Query Excel report embedded BI center/Excel web app, then I cannot answer, but it is just a simple test to perform to get the answer.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MCP, MCTS |

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Thanks for the reply.
The "data source type" of the data source in Power BI is "SQL Server" (there was only that and Oracle available to select from)
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Add actions to an existing query or function in Power Query

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C1000004   Migration-BLACKROCK AppV
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