This is a probably the most common request among customers, they want to create a dataset from an Excel file stored in a SharePoint library.

In Power BI Service,

the way to do that is easy and straightforward:

You go to Datasets
You choose import a file
And then you can choose either OneDrive or a SharePoint – Team Sites

If you choose OneDrive – Business, a list of folders and files in your own OneDrive will be provided:

If you choose SharePoint – Team sites, you will need to provide the URL of the site where the Document Library is, or the URL of Document Library itself

Then you will see a list of spaces available at you root site:

For any other site than the top level of your tenant, you will need to provide the URL of the site: https://<your tennt>.sharepoint.com/<site> to see the list of Document libraries:

and then by clicking on a line:

Connect propose two options:

You can then either import Excel data into Power BI and it will be a dataset, or you connect and view your Excel in Power BI and become directly a Report.

Please note that you can’t use the URL to someone else OneDrive, it will produce an error like that:

And in that matter the “OneDrive” storage space of an Office 365 group is considered as a SharePoint library which it is in fact! 😉 So you can easily use the URL of the group doclib and connect it to Power BI.

In Power BI Desktop,

Question comes when you want to do that in Power BI Desktop. It appears quickly that among the great number of data sources available there is no such thing as a SharePoint Library (there is only here SharePoint list)