How publish changes to OData feed from Excel

Question

I've created an IUpdateable ODATA feed using WCF which I can connect to using Excel 2010 Power Query. Excel is able to retrieve data but I cannot find a 'publish' button or anyway to tell Excel to push updates back to the server.

Does Excel / Power Query support ODATA CRUD functions out of the box?

Is there another tool I could use to update data without writting code?

Answer 1

Power Query supports reading from data sources, but we don't support Create/Update/Delete.

I agree with you--it would be awesome to publish data from Excel without having to write any code!

If you think this is something Power Query should have, I'd go to https://ideas.powerbi.com and vote up the feature (you might be the first with the idea).

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Edit(2019): Looks like several people have upvoted this one: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/12251397-q-a-can-you-perform-crud-operations-with-powerquer