Upon first visit you will need to register for an account. Let’s continue on building our own simple query here… Building the QueryĪll Queries can be built using the query builder page which is shared with the weather data download page. In this document, we will show you the basic steps required in loading this data.īefore we begin, if you want to see our Weather Workbook which is a complete weather query system built into a single Excel Workbook, please take a look at our blog explaining how the Weather Workbook can be downloaded and used in our Weather Workbook for Excel article. When you include your data into Excel, you can refresh the data or refer to it from other Sheets to pull out specific time periods or weather variables as needed. This ability isn’t only limited to coders but rather can be utilized to import data into most Business Intelligence Systems including Excel. To overcome this, you have to disable background refresh of your Power Query (“myQuery”).One of the powerful features of the Visual Crossing Weather Service is the ability to query data via a Web Service or URL. The re-protection of the worksheet will kick in sooner than the refresh could finish.
Sheets("mySheet").Protect Password:="myPassword"īut if you use it as it is, you’ll receive the following error message: Sheets("mySheet").Unprotect Password:="myPassword"ĪctiveWorkbook.Connections("Query - myQuery").Refresh The following VBA code will unprotect the sheet “mySheet”, then refresh the query “myQuery” before protecting the sheet again with the password “myPassword”. Steps to refresh Power Queries on protected sheets So please have in mind that this technique only works for scenarios where you want to prevent accidental changes with the password protection.
But this requires the password being displayed in the VBA code. Using a macro to temporarily unprotect the sheet and protect it again will do the trick. When working with Power Query in Excel you might want to refresh Power Queries on protected sheets.
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