I am trying to manually update my Power BI report and when I click on reload button, this message appear,
Query 'VW_INS_MC_ITEMS' (step 'Extracted First Characters') refers to other queries or steps, so you cannot access the data source directly. Re-generate this data combination.
I have already verified the connections, permissions, etc.
Go to File - Options and Settings - Options - Current File - Privacy
and select Ignore the Privacy Levels
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My initial requirements was to create a PowerApp that's integrated with Power BI using one of the columns (say col1) from tables used in Power BI report. I implemented this and published the app.
Now, the requirements have changed and the request is for an additional column (say col2) in the same app. How can I add an additional new field that can somehow show under PowerBIIntegration.Data.col2?
I didn't find any documentation or reference for the same. In past, I have built PowerApps with multiple columns but not sure how to add new column to existing PowerApps when integrated with Power BI.
I had the same issue, what you need to do is edit the power app from the PowerBI file or published version too.
Steps:
Open the PowerBI file or the published file with clicking on edit
Select your existing PowerApp visual
Add the new columns by checking the new column check boxes per usual
Then hover over the PowerApp Visual and click on on the three dots that appear in the top right of the powerApp visual, and select Edit,
This will launch PowerApp studio page so you can edit the app
Using this method will also connect your app to the live data set from the PowerBIIntegration data set.
source text:
"If you change the data fields associated with the visual, you will need to edit the app from Power BI service to make sure that the changes are propagated to PowerApps. You will observe unexpected behavior if the app is not edited from Power BI service to make sure that the new fields from Power BI reflect in the app."
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/et-ee/blog/powerbi-powerapps-visual/
I have a Power BI report which I need to update one in a while.
All its tables were loaded from some internet URL, but only one of them needs to be updated, all the others have static data.
How do I make Power BI stop trying to reload the static tables?
Or how do I copy the data from these tables into new "non-internet-loaded" tables?
In the Query Editor, right-click on the queries and toggle off Include in report refresh where appropriate.
(The Enable load toggle is useful for queries that you only use for staging and don't actually want to load into your model.)
I'm using Power bi service along with power bi desktop version.
What I'd like is to spend less time on setting up UI for my charts.
Let's say I have multiple accounts with power bi datasets in them (hybrid dataset to be able to display data in real-time).
Currently I have to create report on each of them, set up charts etc. I expected to create pbix file once and then just publish it to different accounts. But when it comes to reports bound with power bi datasets, it is no longer possible. Even if account already has exactly the same hybrid dataset.
Any ideas on how to implement portable reports?
If I got your point correctly, you have multiple accounts and in each of them you have the same dataset. You want to create open report, which you will publish to all of these accounts. I do not understand why do you need to create a new report for each of your accounts. Why not just change the data source of your report prior publishing it to each of these accounts?
Also it is not clear, how these datasets are created. I think there are two possible options here - these datasets are published with your report, or they are existing datasets not published with this report.
In the first case, just design your report, getting data from your database, and publish the report in each of your accounts. You could change the data source prior every publishing, if your different accounts/datasets should get data from different databases.
In the second case, when you design your report, do not get data from the database, but connect the report to the Power BI Service itself:
and pick the existing dataset:
Before each publish change the account you are logged in, change the data source of the report and select the dataset from the corresponding account. This way when publishing the report, the dataset will not be overwritten, but will be shared between this report and any other report who uses it.
To change the data source of your report, in the drop down of "Edit Queries" button, select "Data source settings" and then click "Change Source..." button.
In both ways you will design your report only once, but it will be published in different accounts using different data.
Are all of your users in the same tennant/company?
If so, create a workspace. Create your report which uses another power BI dataset as its source. Turn on row level permissions. Share the new report to all people. They will only see the data relevant to them and you will only need to maintain one report.
Row level security in power bi
I have used Power BI Service with Multiple Reports/Users in Same Organization with Shared Data Sources using different Reports for each user using the same Datasets.
From your Admin Account (eg. it#contoso.org) Publish all the Reports and once its working from Online (after configuring Gateway and DataSources). Download the PBIX Report File from Power BI Online.
Using Admin Account go to Dataset Settings and Allow the users who will use reports using this datasets to Publish Reports using this Dataset (further security to use dataset i.e. Even if they get the source PBIX File and upload it they wont get access to the data).
Login using the Users Power BI Account (must be within Same Organization, eg. contoso.org) then upload the Same PBIX Report File which was downloaded Earlier from Power BI Web Portal (do not publish via the Desktop App), its more efficient and cleaner on Accessing the Data through Web/Devices.
Now the reports as already they are using the same shared Datasets, the reports will be running fine and the data source settings only have to be done once from Admin User.
And for any further databases Administration only One Admin Account need to be used to access and modify the Data Source Settings.
I'm new to Power BI (Free Version) and I have been asked to develop a report system which generates report from an excel sheet, the reports work good for only the data I have collected.
but my question is how to connect to the data immediately from SQL server without the need to convert it to excel and then import it in power BI, I also want the data to be refreshed dynamically.
One of the solutions I tried is to add new dataset but I get the following message:
Refresh can't be scheduled because the data set doesn't contain any
data model connections, or is a worksheet or linked table. To schedule
refresh, the data must be loaded into the data model.
I have looked for many solutions but none has worked.
am I missing a concept? thank you
If this data is stored in a SQL SERVER table it is a pretty straight forward process.
When you create a new power bi report (.Pbix) you should see a prompt asking you if you want to "Get Data". You would select the 'SQL Server Database' option - See the image below:
Then, you will be asked to enter the Server and Database name, and to specify either 'Import' or 'Direct Query' mode. If you choose 'Import' the data will be refreshed every time you access the report or upon 'Refresh' within a report session. If you choose the latter, the connection will always be live i.e. any changes to the data in your database will be reflected in the report.
Once you get passed this window, you will be asked to either specify credentials or use a windows authentication to access the database and server. After that you can either specify a query to pull in some data or you can select from a list of tables.
I hope this helps!!
I created a report in Powerbi desktop. The dataset is a view from a table and I used the Import method and not DirectQuery. There is a lot of data. So when I do a refresh on the PowerBi desktop, it does the refresh but takes a while. When I published my report, and scheduled a daily refresh, the daily refresh fails with the following error
Data source type: SQL
Data source error: Microsoft SQL: Query timeout expired
How can I olve this. I have tried deleting and publishing the report again and again. I also checked the data credentials field in the schedule refresh tab.
I would open the report file in Power BI Desktop and make these changes:
Navigate to the "file" menu (top-left) / Options and settings / Settings
Under Current File / Data Load / Parallel Loading ..., check the Enable parallel loading ... option
Under Current File / Privacy, choose Ignore the Privacy Levels ...
Hopefully that's enough to get you over the line.
If not then I would work on speeding the query design. From your error message it sounds like the generated query is very slow to start returning rows. I'd try to move any Filter, Group By or Choose/Remove Column steps up the Applied Steps list so they have an impact early and reduce the load on your database server.