I was wondering if I can connect Power BI server (not desktop) directly to the database I use.
By doing this, if possible, skipping going through pbi desktop.
And one more thing, can I share the dashboard as a secure link ?
I'd like to share the dashboard directly and in a simpler way so I won't run into people not wanting to use powerbi and have more flexibility with it.
Maybe someone can answer those questions for me so I won't have to keep wondering.
Thank you in advance!
In case it wasn't clear I m new to powerbi so if these questions sound like fantasy you know why..
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Not sure if this is the right exchange to post on, but I receive this strange error with Power BI when trying to connect to a web source: E.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/leaderboard
Doing this in excel the data loads fine.
What's particularly weird, though, is that if I open a previous report, the Web connector still loads correctly; however, if I open the query and click on the Extracted table from Html. I get:
The only thing I can think of is that PowerBI is downloaded via a company portal. Perhaps this is corrupted? Strange though, cause randomly, it will work again and then not.
Furthermore, the HTML will be displayed if I connect to the page as a Text file. So it's not as if the actual connector is the issue, but rather that PowerBI seems unable to preview a webpage (Frustrating, though, as I need to be able to add a table using examples).
Let me know if anyone has any thoughts on things to test out.
Also, I figured it was worth posting this as there doesn't appear to be much information online regarding this. Hopefully, this will be useful to others in the future Some appear to solve it with permissions, but I think my issue is more fundamental.
Turn out the application was being blocked by my computers security.
Good morning,
I am looking for any solution that could help me analysing how many times is a PowerBI report opened and who opens it. I cannot use the PowerBI analytics.
I was thinking that PowerAutomate might have a Power BI whenopened trigger or something that could work like that.
Does anyone know if it is posible to develope a Power Automate flow that checks that?
Thank you so much!
Have seen a few mentions on pulling Bloomberg pricing data into Power BI, with most referencing a REST API but I can't seem to find any good examples on how to implement. I have a Bloomberg license, but have been struggling on how to marry the two without pulling Bloomberg data into Excel and then referencing in Power BI. Anyone have any luck on this front?
I'd prefer to avoid the Excel route as I'd like to be able to choose dates, assets, etc in the Power BI report and then refresh dynamically rather than open Excel every time and then refresh the Power BI report.
Thanks in advance.
I'm sure there's a way to load data via R with the Rblpapi library. Might try going down this route. I don't have a license so I'm unable to test.
Documentation here:
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html
You'll be glad to know that Bloomberg Connector is part of Power BI April release !
There does not currently seem to be an easy way of doing this. I have been exploring using C#. I found this tutorial which provides a lot of detail on connecting to the Bloomberg API using C#, and this tutorial on pushing data into Power BI using C#. There might be a way by connecting the concepts in both tutorials. If anyone has any better ideas I would love to hear them.
How could could one connect power bi and algolia? I did some research, and I've found no examples. Somewhat related, I've seen no mention of how to connect mongodb in a meaningful way.
The PowerBI community takes ideas for new connectors and other features. There is one for MongoDB to which you can add your vote.
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/7017782-mongodb
It seems that algolia has not yet been suggested as a desired new connector. Maybe you want to go and suggest it. Suggestions with many votes are more likely to be developed than ones with few votes.
I am using Power BI Embedded. I have created a .pbix file containing a few tabs worth of visualizations. Each tab contains a TimeLine visualization so I can select timer periods along with several charts and maps.
This arrangement looks good in Power BI Desktop. When I publish the .pbix file to the Power BI website, each tab can be pinned to a dashboard. Pinning a dozen visualizations does not seem to make much sense and seems to suggest that the real idea behind it is to not have many visualizations on each tab and allow the user to pin the visuals they are really interested in. The Power BI presentations I've seen also seems to do this.
My report would end up with dozens of tabs which could get very unwieldy in Power BI Desktop. Is there a right way to go about this? Is there some guidance from Microsoft or a few examples I can look at? How does this affect Power BI Embedded?
Also posted to the Power BI Forums.
Honestly, I don't find multiple tabs to be that unwieldy. Of course, it boils down to personal preference/the preference of your audience. It sounds like you have things arranged nicely.
The Power BI Showcase has some good examples of aesthetically pleasing reports here.
About embedding: from my personal experience, tabs do not show up when embedding a PowerBI dashboard/report in a web application.