is it possible to connect powerbi web to an external webapi without using the powerbi desktop and create a report totally online, without installing the thesktop tool
Currently you can only build a Dataset in the Power BI Service from flat files. Everything else requires using Power BI Desktop to build your Dataset.
Once you have a Dataset you can build reports in either Power BI Desktop or on the web.
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We have few cubes located in on-prem SSAS and on AAS (Azure analysis services). The report connect to the cube via live connection.
We are planning to migrate the cubes into the Power BI Premium workspace.
I want to ask - how do I migrate the cube from analysis services to Power BI Premium? Do I publish the model from visual studio analysis services project into Power BI premium workspace? Or do I convert the visual studio analysis services project into .pbix based data model?
Hi Easiest way is to migrate using Tabular Editor
First in power bi make sure you have enabled XMLA endpoint read write enabled in the tenant. Refer below SS
Get the analysis services url and click on From DB and paste the AAS url
Be mindful of the compatibility level Recommending to put it into 1565 range
After this deploy into the premium workspace.
Get the wokrspace connection string from below mentioned place.
Paste it in below.
Deploy by picking following settings.
And Deploy.
Deploying the code like #amelia suggested is a great way to migrate and the answer was extremely well written. For AAS there is a new built-in migration process which backs up and restores the AAS model to Power BI. Then it enables redirection so that existing Excel reports (or other client tools) automatically are redirected to Power BI.
Was able to connect PowerBI Desktop to a Redshift Cluster and visualize data from there.
However, I have a need to setup Autorefresh and other options that require the Data source credentials to be maintained and connected.
Importing my data from PowerBI Desktop to Pro (web version), it is unable to connect.
On PowerBI Pro it is unable to make such connections and receiving the following. Also verified that my credentials are correct.
Any help would be appreciated.
I have read some tutorials about the Python integration inside Power BI reports. This tutorials works on Power BI Desktop.
I have only tried on online version of Power BI (power BI pro). The "P" icon is avaiable in visualization tool box but it does not show me python prompt in the bottom of the screen.
I suppose python is supported on Power BI pro because the icon is present ?
Any idea ?
The python editing experience is limited in the Web service, as well as other report creation tools.
You use Power BI Desktop to create your report which has the Python editor and access to the Python installation on your PC. Once created you load it to the service, then it will work. You may need to use a Personal Data Gateway if you are using a Python script in Power Query.
Limitations are outlined here:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/python-visualizations-in-power-bi-service/
Pro doesn't replace desktop, the device is mainly used for collaboration and sharing, as it has limited report editing and creation tools and can only link to a limited number of data sources.
We have in house project which we are developing in our cloud environment.
So we wanted to use PowerBi as the visualization tool. So can you please suggest if we can publish PowerBi files into our Cloud environment other than azure.
This functionality is coming to some degree in SQL Server Reporting Services vNext.
I know it's possible to create your custom visualization in Power BI Dev Tool and use it in PowerBI.com but is it possible to export a visualization created in Visual Studio into a .pbiviz file and import it in Power BI for Desktop?
In VSCode, this action can be performed by typing the following into the integrated terminal
pbiviz package
You can find the .pbiviz file in the dist folder once compiling is complete.
The .pbiviz file you create from the Power BI Dev Tools can be used in both the Power BI service and Power BI Desktop. You might need to update your Power BI desktop build with the latest. Then you'll see the "..." icon in visualization pane and you can import any .pbiviz files you have. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop
We do not have the ability for Visual Studio (the GitHub project really) to generate a .pbiviz file. Now a .pbiviz file is just a zip archive, so you might be able to create a gulp tasks that build compatible .pbiviz files right from a Visual Studio build. We have this in our backlog, but we'd be really thankful should you (or someone else) submit a PR with this capability to the Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals repro.
http://wwww.github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals