Hello All,
It seems that the Power BI Publisher for Excel stopped working today. I have tried it for two different accounts on two different computers on two different network with the same result. When I "Connect to Data" I get the following result. It does work, however, when I "Analyse in Excel" from the service and run the resulting downloaded file. Existing files that were previously working stopped working across the board.
Hi guys!
With this link you can download my dummy dataset:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rh27eu9rvhbs1hg/DUMMY.xlsx?dl=0
I have a huge dataset, and this Excel file represents the structure of it. So I have an ID column, and two other values column ("RAW_DATA" sheet). This dataset is in an SQL table, and my BI reports are connected to it via DirectQuery.
The consumer of the report chooses the ID in a slicer. This way e.g. a line chart appears that contains only the values which have the selected ID. Easy so far. But I want to be able to give my users the opportunity to choose from the selected ID-s X value also! I want to create a slicer for these X values, and of course this slicer should contain only those X values which are determined by the choosen ID value. Sounds like an easy task, and maybe I am missing something... but I cannot solve this problem. BI wants load every X value in that slicer (which is impossible, because I have millions of X values...).
Once we are able to achieve this, we can move on to our next problem 🙂
When the user selected the X value, I have to use that selected X value as a constant in other calculations... In my attached Excel file you can see a simplified version of the calculation on the "SELECTED_DATA" sheet. So basically the question is how to use the selected value of a slicer as variable in other formulas. These formulas I have to do in a measure (because I am using DirectQuery - therefore I cannot use computed columns)... But the question is: How?
And the cherry on top: as you can see in the attached Excel my calculations are rolling... so they are always dependent on the values which are smaller than the current value... I you have any ideas for this, please dont hold back 🙂
Thanks!
Hi,
I am trying to use "when an item is modified" in power automate to refresh the dataset in power bi when a row is updated in database. But, after entering server name and databse name, there is no optoion in table view selection.
I will treally appreciate if anyone can help.
Thanks,
Srish
I have a PowerBi live dashboard that updates every five minutes. using a tv with a PC hooked up to it to display the dashboard on a browser, chrome extension to refresh the browser, and I used the Chromeless=1 thing I have seen online. The best I can do it full screen mode on the browser and refresh. That still leaves a lot of unwanted display around the tops and sides of the dashboard. Does anybody have a workaround to allow me to have a dashboard in full screen mode that updates on a timer? Is there a better way to do this that I am not thinking of? What I have now works, just doesn't look as clean as I would like.
What do I need to enable collaboration on PBI ? I would like to do this with other members in my team. which tools I need Power BI Premium or Pro? Should everyone in the team have to have license?
Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the correct location for this question but I have struggled to find documentation anywhere on how exactly to set up RLS when connected to Azure Data Lake. Is the syntax used exactly the same as what's used in on-premises dataset PBI files?
For example, below would be an example of a role we have set up within our on-prem:
[EmployeeName] = LOOKUPVALUE('EmployeeTable'[EmployeeName], 'EmployeeTable'[EmailAddress], USERPRINCIPALNAME())
This RLS DAX code is what's used within our RLS for Azure but business users are stating that they're able to see everything, not data specific to them as intended.
Are there extra settings that need to be performed within the PBI service to ensure the security filtering is activated? Or anything else that needs to be done beforehand?
We've wanted to use Power BI Apps for some time now since it's what's been recommended by MSFT. The one thing we've encountered is if we grant a user explicit rights to the app... even if they have zero permissions to the workspace, reports, datasets, etc. that apply they can still view everything that's published within the app from the navigation perspective. So if you had something on a report that's hardcoded in a text box for some reason (doubtful) you've created a big security concern or if there is a report called budgets, etc. that they should be allowed to see, they can now see the title and visuals pre-data. We've gone to the ideas page and found a number of ideas that are spread around about this and i've submitted a case on this, but this seems more like a bug in the service then a feature as designed?
If the app adhered to the security within the workspace and validated that for what can be displayed then I think apps would be extremely useful and the idea of needing multiple apps / multiple workspaces for each report wouldn't be needed. Is anyone else experiencing this same behavior and how are you getting around it?
Hi, I'm using PBIRS, and my users access reports via our Reporting Services portal.
I have a report with a small number of rows that the users need to dump to excel for reconciliation with another system.
This is a case where many users need access to this data, but cannot all have access to a vendor's site, so we pull the file in and let them access it via RS. The report is just a straight table, no aggregation, in fact, no measures at all in the dataset. There are no filters, even.
Today's file contains 1348 rows, but when I export the table to excel, it only exports 981 of the rows. We get the same results, whether we choose excel or csv.
We are not anywhere near the limit, so what is happening here?
ETA: The data source is a single table, and the model contains a single table so there is no filtering via join either. Doesn't even have a date table.
Hi in last weeks I'm using Analysis Service to connect to a dataset with:
= AnalysisServices.Database("powerbi://api.powerbi.com/nnn/org/workspace", "Dataset", [TypedMeasureColumns=true, Implementation="2.0"])
The connection now is falling with this error.
Can someone help me?
I have a report that pulls data from a SQL DB source via a gateway and from Salesforce. In Power BI Desktop, it all works perfectly - refreshing both data sources on demand without error. When I publish the report to Power BI Service space, the service wants to pull all data through the gateway and prevents me from making any changes to options. There are technically three data sources - but one is an MS Excel file that doesn't require any update. When I set that option in PowerBI Desktop, it is ignored by the service and the service keeps offering to add it to the gateway.
So...
1) can a report have gateway and credentials AND non-refreshing data sources co-existing in the PowerBI Service?
2) can the report data be enabled for scheduled refreshes? If so, how?
Many thanks, in advance!
I have a problem that I want to export data from Azure log analytics to Power BI and want to schedule refresh without user interaction. How we can achieve it.
Hello,
I have a report that is scheduled to refresh everyday and it has been working fine until yesterday. I noticed that it failed to refresh and it looked like gateway not configured correctly (see image below). The gateway is fine for other report. I could not figure out what caused the problem so I changed the query then able to select the gateway but getting another error 'Credentials are required to connect to the SQL source' when trying to refresh. My query has parameter. If I remove the parameter then I'm able to refresh the dataset. I don't understand. I can refresh the report with parameter query before. Not sure what happened or what I need to change in order for this to work again. Please advise.
Thanks
Vy
we have following scenario:
a) On-Premise Data Gateway is installed on an app server,
b) MS SQL as a source data is geographically elsewhere,
c) 5 reports published on PBI service, each max 4-5 MB
d) setting timeout 120 mins
e) setting privacy level = private
All ports from app server allowed to Azure, as well Azure data center reachable from SQL server. App server allowed to communicate on port 1433 towards SQL server.
Any ideas please, what went wrong?
Error : Report_XXX has failed to refresh.
Failure details: The last refresh attempt failed because of an internal service error. This is usually a transient issue. If you try again later and still see this message, contact support.
Type or error: Unable to connect to the data source undefined.
| Underlying error code: | -2147467259 |
| Underlying error message: | Microsoft SQL: Query timeout expired |
| DM_ErrorDetailNameCode_UnderlyingHResult: | -2147467259 |
| Microsoft.Data.Mashup.ValueError.DataSourceKind: | SQL |
| Microsoft.Data.Mashup.ValueError.DataSourcePath: | XXXX;XXXX |
| Microsoft.Data.Mashup.ValueError.ErrorCode: | -2147217871 |
| Microsoft.Data.Mashup.ValueError.Message: | Query timeout expired |
Thank you very much for help!
Hi,
I'm new to PowerBi and still finding my way around. What I would like to do if possible is to use the tooltip feature to show a pop up on mouse rollover, not for individual data points / bars etc, but for the whole report.
I would like to this this so that I can provide some narrative to the report and the calculation built in to the report.
Is this possible please?
Any advice greatly appreciated.
I have connected Power BI Desktop with Postgres using Direct Query mode, But when I publish it to Power BI Service. I'm unable to set data source credentials for scheduled refresh. I'm getting below error:
"Failed to Update data source credentials. An error happened while reading from the provider. The remote certificate is invalid according to valdation procedure." The same credentials works fine when connect with Power BI Desktop. Please find the screenshot of the error attached below:
Regards,
mohityash
Hi guys, I have an issue.
Our data source moved servers and the gateway throws an error. We can only get it fixed after End-of-Year freeze in July.
I can refresh data in dev desktop and publish it until we can fix the gate.
The only problem is, when opening the report in the web service, it tries to refresh automatically. Breaking some visuals.
Is it possible to disabe auto refresh or the gateway until we can get it fixed?
If so, how?
thanks a mil guys
Ian
Hello -
Does anyone know of a way to run reporting of who owners are of reports within a premium workspace? I know there is a way to create a report within service on the metrics of the reports in regards to how many views and viewers and when the reports where accessed. We are trying to create a dashboard to see which reports are following our standards and if there are any issues we would like to contact th owner of the report to correct etc?
Thanks
Raf
Hi all,
I am connecting the Power BI in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. I have followed the steps to create a connection between Navision and Power BI. I am facing a problem the API is returning an embedUrl which NAVISION tries to store in a buffer table but the max length of storage is 250 characters and that API is returning more than 250 characters. All the coding is standard in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV. I did connect in the same way 6 months back but now I am facing this issue. Did they update the Api? if so what is the resolution of this?
Dear Team,
We use Global PowerBI Service in Europe and Azure CN SQL Server database.
Since we add the PBI Serivce IP into Azure CN SQL Server database fireware IP white list, but PBI Service IP address always change. So how to keep PBI Service connect to Azure CN SQL Server databse with fireware on and the PBI Service IP should always in its white list?
Azure CN support team said Azure side cannot do anything for this. We must to know the IP range and add them into database IP white list. Can you tell me the IP Address for:
Account.
Hello,
i've use power bi quite a lot, and now i'm having a problem, that is crashing constantly, i've open a pbix do 2, 3 things and gives me the message that is in the image.
I dont know if that is i'm using a several sheet reports in my pbix, but it's unbarable.
Do you know why this is 
thanks,
jppuam
