This is a question addressed to users of Google Ads data in BigQuery.
My goal is to create a dashboard displaying all ad extensions (Sitelinks, callouts ...) and their results.
In BigQuery, we have this dataset called "rawdata" imported from Google Ads. I noticed that ad extensions have specific tables and are not in generic tables like "p_Ad" or "p_AdStats". Instead we can find them in p_ExtensionsCallouts, p_ExtensionsSitelinks.
But in p_ExtensionsSitelinks we only find ad texts, no figures, no results. So I need to link to another table containing results. CreativeId in p_AdStats seemed to be the key between my results and the id in my sitelinks table.
I tried to join p_AdStats to p_ExtensionsSitelinks, on p_AdStats.CreativeId = p_ExtensionsSitelinks.Id, but no success. Id in p_ExtensionsSitelinks seems to be a very specific id, not found in p_Ad.
Screenshot of p_ExtensionsSitelinks Schema
Does anyone have already encountered this problem please?
Thank you very much.
Cheers, Julien
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I am having troubles sincronising certain tables of our ERP (Dynamics Business Central) with Power BI. The steps that I am doing are explained below:
Get Data
Search Dynamics 365 Business central
Search for the relevant tables
This is when Power BI doesn´t let me preview the information within the table called 'salesCreditMemoLines' (), contrary to other tables that I can see without troubles ()
I appreciate your help in this issue.
This is expected error. Document lines collections in Business Central API require the respective document ID to be present in the request, otherwise it fails.
This is the piece of code from the API page that throws this error.
IdFilter := GetFilter(SystemId);
DocumentIdFilter := GetFilter("Document Id");
if (IdFilter = '') and (DocumentIdFilter = '') then
Error(IDOrDocumentIdShouldBeSpecifiedForLinesErr);
There are two ways to send the document ID. My examples below are querying sales orders, but the same applies to all document collections.
First is request the lines along with the document header using $expand syntax:
https://api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v2.0/{{tenantid}}/{{environmentname}}/api/v2.0/companies({companyId})/salesOrders(orderId)$expand=salesOrderLines
Another option is to query the document lines adding the $filter parameter:
https://api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v2.0/{{tenantid}}/{{environmentname}}/api/v2.0/companies(companyId)/salesOrderLines?$filter=documentId eq salesOrderId
Filters can include ranges, so this way it's possible to request a collection of lines from multiple documents.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/webservices/use-filter-expressions-in-odata-uris
Neither of these methods is going to work in Power BI data source selection, though. An alternative way is to use an entity salesDocumentLines under the Web Services (legacy) option. Yes, it shows as legacy, but so far Microsoft has not announced any plans to remove the OData web services.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2021wave1/smb/dynamics365-business-central/enable-power-bi-connector-work-business-central-apis-instead-web-services-only
Perhaps better to rephrase my question.
If I have a powerbi report..
Can I somehow make copies of this report with different data(set?) via an API and on demand?
e.g.
User requests a report with some parameters,
Existing report gets copies with a new dataset and published
tnx
Brian
== origional question below ==
Would anyone be able to point in in the right direction here.
I currently have a c# application that generates reports which are simply excel files.
Each time I create a report I simply open an excel file with some preexisting formatting, set the data in a particular sheet then save it to a new location.
How can I achieve something similar with PowerBI?
Ideaily I'd like to open a precanned powerbi report, pass a parameter to the 'dataset' I've just generated,
I dont have any string feeling as to what the dataset would be, I'm open to whatever works,
database/static dataset created by csharp somehow/webservice/etc.
Can anyone suggest how? tnx
How about creating you Power BI report based on your existing Excel files? Make sure to store them on SharePoint so that the PowerBI Online Service can pick them up w/o additional gateways. You can then use your app to trigger the report refresh as soon as the Excel files have been updated.
Clearly the system does not allow me to see some tables. Whether it is the tables linked to the module time or any other one. The same goes for the Purchase module, I have access to just some of the tables.
Can you guys help me understand why I cannot get access to these tables please?
note : i can access all of the sheet's records that i do not have access to on powerbi on another dynamics365 application, so i'm really confused why is that !
I am trying to connect and visualise aggregation of metrics from a wildcard table in BigQuery. This is the first time I am connecting a table from this particular Google Cloud project to Data Studio. Prior to this, I have successfully connected and visualised metrics from other BigQuery tables from other Google Cloud projects in Google Data Studio and never encountered this issue. Any ideas? Could this be something to do with project-level permissions for Google Data Studio to access a BigQuery table for the first time?
More details of this instance: the dataset itself seems to be successfully connected into Data Studio so errors were encountered. After adding some charts connected to that data source and aggregating metrics, no other Data Studio error messages were encounterd. Just the words "No data" displayed in the chart. Could this also be a formatting issue in the BigQuery table itself? The BigQuery table in question was created via pandas-gbq in a loop to split the original dataset into individual daily _YYYYMMDD tables. However, this has been done before and never presented a problem.
I have been struggling with the same problem for a while, and eventually I find out that, at least for my case, it is related to the date I add to the suffix (_YYYYMMDD). If I add "today" to the suffix, DataStudio won't recognize it and will display "no data", but if I change it to "yesterday" (a day earlier), it will then display the data correctly. I think it is probably related to the timezones, e.g., "today" here is not yet there in the US, so the system can't show. Hopefully it helps.
I am using Power BI API.
I've got a dataset with some tables and rows.
From Power BI API Console I don't have any issue when retrieving datasets or tables.
However the PUT verb on a table resource to update its schema always returns a 504 - Proxy request timed out
It's the first time I use Apiary IO so it might be its problem and not Power BI update, but that leads me to some questions:
Is there any workaround to test Power BI with, for example, Fiddler? I can type the url and body but I will need an Authorization header with the OAuth2 token if I'm not mistaken. How can I get that? ApiaryIO seems to hide it.
As per Update Schema Documentation the URL with the resource is https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/datasets/{myDatasetId}/tables/{myTableName}
and the verb is a PUT. What is then the meaning of the "name": "???" parameter that goes in the JSON body? Is it the table's name or something else? I am assuming it's the table name but it seems redundant as I am already accessing the resource {myTableName} as per the given URL.
And my last related question is how to rename a specific table's column without modifying its data? This is what I'm trying to achieve by updating the schema but I don't understand how does Power BI know what column I am trying to rename.
Thank you!
Sorry that you're having trouble. You can get a token in two ways -the right way is to create an app in AAD (here's how). The wrong way ;) is to open the Power BI.com service, in a browser then open fiddler, then press F5 to reload. You should be able to see the Access Token in various requests. If you register an app, you can plug in your App's information in one of the samples we have https://powerbi.microsoft.com/developers, see client app or web app.
The name you provide in the table is the friendly human readable name that appears in the UI when you're building a report. Without it the system is unusable by humans :).
Let me get back to you on #3.
Calling PUT table will attempt to save upgrade the table without loosing any data (unless you removed columns). If it can't, it will return a conflict error. If you still want to update the table schema, you would have to delete the rows and call PUT table again. There is currently no direct way to rename a column. PUT table would treat it like a delete and add for that column. You would loose the data in that column but not the whole table.