I have an worksheet in Excel, with one pivot table, connected to a tabular model deployed to a server. I am not able to navigate it through PowerBi.com
I did it the following steps:
- I uploaded the file to One Drive for Business and opened it through PowerBI.com using the "Connect, Manage and View Excel in Power BI" option.
- When I try to navigate it (from the Reports section), it gives me a warning that says: Be careful. The query to get the data might be unsafe so you should only refresh the workbook if you trust its source. Do you want to refresh the workbook? The options are "Yes" and "No", I click on the "Yes" button.
- Once I click on the "Yes" button, an error message this time pops up: External Data Refresh Failed. We were unable to refresh one or more data connections in this workbook. The following connections failed to refresh: NameOfMyConnectionToTabularModelInExcel. The only option: OK.
I don’t see any trace in SSAS Profiler (it could be that the request doesn’t arrive to Analysis Services anymore?!).
I do have a gateway setup between PowerBI.com and my tabular model server. I can consume all the reports realized with PowerBI Desktop from that same server through PowerBi.com.
Also, If I use an Excel file with a pivot table using a SQL Server Connection instead of a Tabular one, I am able to navigate it (drillthrough, filter etc).
Is it a way to manipulate the connection behind this excel in order to refresh the spreadsheet?
Thanks in advance for your help.