M power query - rebuild this data combination

Question

Getting the error message on the below query in M, I\'ve tried splitting into 2 different queries before the merge step but still getting the \'this does not directly access a d

Answer 1

You are not directly accessing the data source since you are linking to the query #"Query List from SP".

Much has been written on this topic. Chris Webb has a whole blog series related to data privacy settings, but the easiest way to get rid of this problem is to simply ignore privacy levels.

Go to Options and settings under the file menu:

Under the Privacy section choose to ignore the privacy levels:

Obviously, if you're building something that needs to manage privacy levels carefully, then this is the wrong approach and you'll need to be more careful. But when privacy levels aren't a concern, this is a simple and convenient fix