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Power BI - Get Data From SharePoint List / Library

October 16, 2017, 11:28 pm
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In this article, we will show how to get the data from SharePoint in Power BI.
  1. Using OData Feed.
  2. Using SharePoint List.

Get SharePoint List/Library Using OData Feed

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a data access protocol for the web.
  • OData provides a uniform way to query and manipulates datasets through CRUD operations (create, read, update, and delete).
  • OData defines an abstract data model and a protocol that let the client access the information exposed by SharePoint. 

Steps

  • Open Power BI Desktop and at Home Tab, click on Get Data > OData Feed.
  • Type the OData Feed URL for the SharePoint "http://siteurl/_vti_bin/listdata.svc" and click Connect. 

    • ListData.svc provides a way of getting information from a list using REST.

  • In Navigator dialog, select the required list and click Load.
  • You should now find the list fields in Fields section, and you should be ready to build your report from SharePoint list items.
Note

In case the current user is not authorized to connect to the site, you will be prompted to set the right credential as shown below.

Get SharePoint List/Library Using SharePoint List Connection

Power BI Desktop also provides a direct data source for the SharePoint list as shown below.

Steps

  • Open Power BI Desktop > at Home Tab > Click on Get Data > click More.
  • In Get Data dialog, Search for SharePoint > Select SharePoint List > click Connect.
  • Provide the SharePoint Site URL > click OK.
  • In Navigator dialog, select the required list > click Load.
  • You should now find the list fields in Fields section, and you should be ready to build your report from SharePoint list items.

 

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Enterprise Gateway - Not Configured Correctly - Strange UNC path

January 30, 2019, 11:45 am
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We are having trouble scheduling a refresh on a dataset within PBI Service because we cannot successfully connect it to our Enterprise Gateway.

 

THE PBI Desktop version refreshes fine, without errors, but when published to the PBI Service the Enterprise Gateway shows up as "Not Configured Correctly" even though the data sources are all there and test out fine.  Other datasets in the workspace use the same queries and they run fine, but this particular dataset is strangely different.

 

After clicking the > under Actions for the desired Gateway, it shows that the PBI Service is looking for a strange UNC file paths for many data sources within the file.  It gives me the option to add each one to the Gateway but they should already be covered by the Folder data source in existence, except that the Service is looking for them in a strange UNC location: 

 

File{"path":"\\\\server\\shared-resource\\folder\\file"}

 

Note the duplication of the "\" in each part of the UNC path.  I have double checked every query in the report and reviewed every data source in the PBIX file and I can't find any reference that looks like the above.  But, PBI Service continues to search for the erroreous UNC file path.

 

Here are some of the things we have already tried:

 

1.  Clear all permissions within the PBIX file and reauthorize each native database query

2.  Delete and recreate data sources online for the Enterprise Gateway

3.  Delete data sources, uninstall the Enterprise Gateway, reinstall the gateway and recretate the data sources

4.  Delete the dataset online and republish it

5.  Publish the dataset to another workspace

 

We are running out of options and we are stuggling to understand how to solve this problem.  Any help from the PBI community will be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Eric

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User No Longer Exists

January 30, 2019, 12:39 pm
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We deployed our Power BI embedded solution in December. We have 3 workspaces (environments) set up and have been doing development for all of 2018 without issue - weekly or biweekly releases.

 

In January of 2019 we did another release where we published updated pbix reports (same file name, replaced datasets) as always, but now get a message

 

This dataset has been configured by a user that no longer exists. Would you like to take over the settings?

The user totally does exist, and the reports were published from that user logged in through the Power BI Desktop application (have tried publishing after loggin out and in again successfully as well). Strangely there is no buttone to take over the settings.

 

If I log in with another account I get the message AND have a button to Take Over. If I do that and log back in with the workspace owner account I also get the Take Over button, but once pressed and perform a log in & out the original message is back again.

 

Everything appears to be working, but we just launched to production a month ago and I'm concerned something isn't right under the covers. 

 

 

 

 

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Unnamed users signify in power bi usage metrics

January 30, 2019, 1:58 pm
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What does Unnamed users signify in power bi usage metric of a report? When does Power BI logs such usage? 

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File{"path":"\\\\server\\shared-resource\\folder\\file"} - Duplicate "\"

January 30, 2019, 2:49 pm
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Power BI Service is duplicating the "\" in the UNC path for all of the data sources in one of my Power BI report. 

 

It refreshes fine in PBI Desktop but when I publish to Service I can't connect the dataset to our Enterprise Gateway and schedule it to refresh becasue of the file path errors.  Here's the format of the data source link that PBI Service is looking for:

 

      File{"path":"\\\\server\\shared-resource\\folder\\file"}

 

 

The data source settings all look fine in the pbix desktop file.  Has anyone seen anything like this or have any idea how to fix it?  All the other datasets in the workspace refresh fine.

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RLS, Sharing & Dashboards

January 30, 2019, 7:10 pm
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Hi Power BI Pros,

 

I have a 5 page report which is as follows:

 

1) Overview

2) Staff Comparison

3) Staff Dashboard - RLS enabled

4) P4 (not relevant)

5) P5 (not relevant)

 

I have 1 group of people who need to be able to see all 5 pages, and another group who wants to only see P2 and P3.

 

P2 requires all data for all staff whereas P3 only shows data relevant to the user who logs in (i.e. RLS enabled)

 

Ideally I would only have 1 dataset and create different dashboards via pinning but due to the RLS requirement, i am currently running 2 reports and data sets.

 

 

How do i go about creating a second dashboard with just P2 and P3?

At the moment i have P2 pinned from the first report, and P3 pinned from the RLS report. However i still need to grant my users access to the first report otherwise they cannot see P2.

 

Additional Question: Is it possible to grant access to a pinned dashboard, but not the underlying report?

 

Thanks

Oneiricer

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Power BI Dataflows - Allowing Schema Drift in Source

January 30, 2019, 7:28 pm
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Hi, I am doing some testing with using dataflows to consume a SharePoint list and drop the results into Azure Blob Storage.

We are hoping to work around some of the pitfalls of using SSIS to consume SharePoint Online lists that frequently have more colums added.

 

Unfortunately when a column is added to the SharePoint list source, the Dataflow doesn't pick up the new column in a Scheduled Refresh and bring it through.

 

This is different to the behaviour of Power BI desktop that will just bring through new columns as they are added to the source (unless a remove other columns transformation is used).

 

Are there plans to support source schema drift in Power BI Dataflows?

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what is secure SharePoint Online pages with the Power BI web part?

January 30, 2019, 9:21 pm
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Hi! community members!!

 

I saw the "Easy embedded secure Power BI reports in your internal ports or webs" update.

 

Among them, there was one thing I didn't know.

It is about secure SharePoint Online Pages with the Power BI web part.

 

Anyone who knows about this would be grateful if you could provide any relevant links or information.

 

I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you!!

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Cloned report via REST API doesn't have Live Connection when exported to PBIX file

January 30, 2019, 10:35 pm
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We have a report in power bi desktop that has live connection. When published to power bi service then downloaded it again into PBIX file, the PBIX file it generated also has live connection.

Now, we need to copy that exact same report to another workspace so we did this step:
- Export the dataset from Workspace 1 (The dataset where we point the live connection to)
- Import the exported dataset to Workspace 2 via REST API
- Clone the report from Workspace 1 (this report has live connection) to Workspace 2 and pointed the dataset to the one we imported earlier

After that, we export the report from Workspace 2 then open the exported PBIX file in power bi desktop. After we opened, we noticed that the report no longer has live connection.

Is it possible to have the cloned report retain its live connection pointing to the newly imported dataset?

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Power BI API Refresh Issue

January 30, 2019, 11:13 pm
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Hi, 

We are using the Power BI API to refresh the dashboard information. The request hits the Power BI Server. The flow is fine.

The issue is Once after the refresh is completed, there is no way for the end users to get the status of the Refresh. This is blocking us from rolling out this feature on PROD. Please provide us with an appropriate solution. 

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toolkit is not coming in dashboard

January 31, 2019, 12:21 am
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Hi everyone, In my report i prepared tooltip that to be reflect in other reports, it is working in report pages, but when pin the live page to dashboard the default tooltip is poping out while hoverover, instead of showing the tooltip i were configured.

Kindly let me know what i'm missing.

reporttool.PNGSnipe of report pagedashtool.PNGSnipe on dashboard page

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on premise gateway - spooler - disk is full.

January 31, 2019, 1:13 am
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does anyone know what the expected behaviour of the spooler folder in C:\Users\PBIEgwService\AppData\Local\Microsoft\On-premises data gateway is for.

 

we have a dataset with a table that only has 3 million records, albeit some large varchar columns.

 

we have had problems refreshing the dataset because the disk is full on the gateway server.

 

i have tracked this down to files being created in the folder above

 

the server has a lot of spare RAM, so not sure why it is writing to disk such large files c 10GB

 

i am considering switching the location of this spooler folder to another volume if possible.

 

anyone else got any ideas.

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Graph not getting displayed properly on web

January 31, 2019, 1:17 am
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Hello Team,

 

I've published a dashboard to a shared workspace. But the content of the dashboard(Like Charts) are not getting displayed on their logins.

They're facing below mentioned error.

Can you please advise.

 

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On Premises data Gateway installation configure failed

January 31, 2019, 1:31 am
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Hi All,

 

I am not able to install on prem data gateway, facing below error. Can you please provide the solution for this issue.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

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Scheduled refresh - excluding some tables on SQL

January 31, 2019, 2:38 am
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Hello guys,

 

I am building a dashboard right now and have some data sources on a SQL server. One table contains more than 6 million rows, so I thought that I split this table in two different tables for a faster updating in the night. 

 

I have the data from 2013 till 2018 which I want to load one time in Desktop. This table shouldn´t be updated in Service then anymore.

The second table contains the YTD sales data, which should be updated every night. 

 

So in Desktop I saw the function "Include in report refresh" which I want to disable for the first table. Is that possible to do that in Power BI Service as well? 

 

Thanks and greetings,

Christopher

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Error while exporting to Power point

January 31, 2019, 5:51 am
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HI,

 

I am trying to export a report in Power Point and it is taking some time and fails with the Following error.

Not sure what this could be , can anyone please help?

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Performance/Load esting

January 31, 2019, 6:45 am
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Hi

 

We have a requirement to perform load testing in Power BI and hence seeking options available to perform it. It would be very helpful and greatly appreciated if any tool/procedure is suggested to achieve this requirement. Thanks!

 

Regards,

Sam

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The HTTP server returned the following error: forbidden, analysing shared external Power BI report

January 31, 2019, 7:25 am
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Hi,

 

Has there been anything put in place to allow for External clients to analyse shared Power BI reports in Excel?  I can see that this is an ongoing issue?  I assume its been put in for security reasons? 

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Original Author - Track changes

January 31, 2019, 7:42 am
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Hey Friends,

I'm now doing some admin work for our App_Workspace.

We have a large number of people uploading into one workspace and it's getting pretty messy.

 

Is ther anyway to find out who the orginal author is for a report?

Or is there a spot where I can add meta data to a report and / or dataset to manually note who the owner is in the group?

 

Any help would be amazing. The task right now seems overwhelming without this.

Thanks!

 

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Logic Behind Underlying Data

January 31, 2019, 7:52 am
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I have asked before about the possibility of customizing what data is included in the underlying data export and I realize that this is not possible?  However, can someone explain to me the logic behind what data is included?  There are columns that are included that I definitely do not need, but then some columns which should be included but aren't.  Even if I have to deal with some unnecessary columns, I would like to know how to get these needed columns to be included.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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