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Support to Sharepoint Lists having lookup fields with multiple values

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Kadu on 04 Oct 2016 20:41:37

When a Sharepoint field with multiple values lookup is expanded, I receive the following response: DataSource.Error: SharePoint: Request failed: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error. (Specified method is not supported.)

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3ae96ca4 5d04-4b71-8635-fb425a5a69a6 on 06 Jul 2020 00:17:44

RE: Support to Sharepoint Lists having lookup fields with multiple values

I am getting this as well

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f80e2130 f28c-e711-8129-e0071b6ad011 on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:47

RE: Support to Sharepoint Lists having lookup fields with multiple values

It appears that PowerBi can lookup list data (choice fields) however cannot lookup multiples values where column is a "Lookup" or "People" column.

Large of reporting use cases enabled if this is resolved.

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dfda062e a829-4d5c-945d-96c056fd1706 on 05 Jul 2020 23:08:58

RE: Support to Sharepoint Lists having lookup fields with multiple values

I'm using PowerBI against some lists in SharePoint Online. I don't get the error you mentioned, but instead i get 2 options (after data load) on how to handle the lookup column: 1) Merge ... which combines the selected values and puts them in a text field and delimits the values with a delineator you can choose, and 2) create a new record in the datamodel table for each selected value in the multi-select. (When I tried #2, it gave an error when reloading data indicating that I had multiple items with the same value in a unique field. So I'm not there yet, but thought I'd share what I've discovered so far.

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34dcf101 cbe0-4553-945a-f3f786f6f2c2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:06:39

RE: Support to Sharepoint Lists having lookup fields with multiple values

Also have this issue - need it resolved

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fa798800 2995-48ae-a69e-83cb3ab80cb1 on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:51

RE: Support to Sharepoint Lists having lookup fields with multiple values

I do have this issue. Were you able to resolve it?