Hi there!
I'm trying to refresh a datasource connected to a local text file. Unfortunately I'm getting “Could not find file" error.
I’m sure that file exists and all necessary permissions are granted.
Gateway connection test proves that:
Would you mind advising me how can I resolve the issue?
Hi All,
I have created a data model inside power bi for a large organization. Currently , it supports all data limits and works fine. For scalability purpose, I am thinking to move the data model out of power bi. Now I can create a SSAS package and move to AAS package and connect power bi from there but there is lot of rework required for data mashup using SSIS.
I am using SSDT with 1400 compatiblity and DataLake as my source. SSDT crashes at times and requires login information everytime when data refreshes. Anyone tried this process or is there a better way to work with ?
Thanks,
Varun Aggarwal
I've been using the same enterprise gateway for months, when suddenly I started getting a "data refresh disabled" error. Now, I cannot even update my gateway credentials, as I am prompted to use a "Personal Gateway".
No idea what how to fix this, as I cannot "uncheck" the personal gateway option.
I'm getting about 20 emails a day telling me the data "has failed to refresh", and I was hoping it would self-fix in the same way it self-broke, but it's not fixing.
So, I need help. The emails are annoying, but worse my data is not refreshing unless I manually republish.
Can anyone please help?
This is driving me bananas. Yesterday it was working fine.
I have the Gateway personal installed.
And I can see this in my power bi dataset
However when I click manage gateways, it says
It was showing the gateway yesterday just fine......any ideas?
Hello,
Is there a way I can capture Impressions and total engagements of a tweet from Twitter? I don't see that option available in Flow and upon investigation I confirmed it is unavailable in the Twitter- Connectors. Currently, the only way I see that available is to manually export the analytics from Twitter. However, I've seen folks on Twitter regularly updating Power BI reports of tweets related to an event which contains impressions and engagements regularly so it seems they are automating it somehow.
So far I have been successfully at capturing information from twitter via Flow and saving it in my Azure SQL database, however, I'm still looking for adding the impressions and engagements.
I searched around for a while and did come across these two articles. They are close but not exactly what I am looking for.
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance!
Hi Community,
I have created a desptop .pbix file which has following data connectors:
Google analytics
Excel file stored on the company server ( accessing the file via on-premises gateway )
My file works fine, but I can't refresh my files once uploaded to service.
Not only it stops me to schedulle a refresh but also stops to do a manual refresh.
The only solution working for now is to re-publish each time.
P.S.
a- If I remove the Google analytics data connector and keep just excel file, the excel file works fine via tha gateway and lets me perferm a schedule & refresh.
b- If I remove the excel file and keep just the google analyticd, again it works fine in all aspects on the published report in service.
As soon as I combine both in a report, the error I gets is gateway not defined.
here is a snapshot of same file , when Google analytics connector is removed, the gateway starts wokring.
Note: the way around for now, I have created is to load the excel file on google docs and it is working.
Is there any requirement or limit on one file local with a web file in same report published can't be refreshed etc
any help, guidelines, material will be highly appriciated.
Thanks & Regards
Dear Power BI community friends,
it's my first message (of many I expect) in this forum. We're currently accessing Power BI at our company and we're looking forward for the future.
Regarding this feature, can you help me find an answer to:
• How can I, as a power bi administrator, see who has published to web
• How can I see all the "publish to web" links the users have created so far ?
• If I disable the "publish to web" functionality in the Admin portal, will that prevent an already created link to be viewed in the web?
many thanks for your clarifications in advance,
Best Regards
Rúben Salvador
Error message: DataSource.Error: ODBC: ERROR [HY000] Error while executing the query
Details:
DataSourceKind=Odbc
DataSourcePath=database=Travel_Information;driver={PostgreSQL Unicode(x64)};port=5432;server=travel-information.chda0n3dhd8k.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com
OdbcErrors=Table
Connection string I am using: database=Travel_Information;driver={PostgreSQL Unicode(x64)};port=5432;server=travel-information.chda0n3dhd8k.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com
Any suggestions?
So last week when I first set up my gateway, the refresh worked (and there were places where it prompts me to enter credentials under data source credentials, now it is empty shown in screenshot). Then then it fails and fails over and over again. The second screenshot shows the error msg for failed refreshing. Not sure what I did wrong here. Thank you.
Para aceitar conexões remotas o Postgre/MySQL precisam de adicionar o IP do servidor de origem da conexão para permitir o acesso remoto. Caso contrário você teria de permitir todos os acessos e isso comprometeria a segurança do banco de dados. Como eu posso saber o IP de origem de conexão do Power BI para adicionar a uma lista branca de acesso?
To accept remote connections, Postgre/MySQL needs to add the IP of the connection's source server to allow remote access. Otherwise you would have to allow all accesses and this would compromise the security of the database. How can I know the Power BI connection source IP to add to a whitelist of access?
Eu li o conteúdo deste link, mas eu não encontrei específicamente essa informação:
I read the content of this link, but I did not specifically find this information:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/pt-br/documentation/powerbi-personal-gateway/
Thanks
So last week when I first set up my gateway, the refresh worked (and there were places where it prompts me to enter credentials under data source credentials, now it is empty shown in screenshot). Then then it fails and fails over and over again. The second screenshot shows the error msg for failed refreshing. Not sure what I did wrong here. Thank you.
I want to get a list of people in my Orgnazation using PowerBI pro. I cant seem to figure out if there is a API for this. Has anyone successfully done this?
I have most of my big tables (tables with over 200 M records) sitting at Google's Big Query servers and would like to use Power Bi (Desktop) for doing analytics. Found Simba´s ODBC driver, installed and configured and gained access to the datasets, but Power Bi is not giving a choice for Direct Querying the data. Instead, is trying to download it, which of course will not do it, firstly because of storage limitations on the client side, but mostly because the only reason I have the data at Big Query is to be able to use Google´s processing power. Simba´s driver specs says it should allow Direct Querying (called Direct BI) but that did not work for me.
Has anyone out there ever tried to connect BQ from Power Bi? If so could direct querying? Have any ideas or suggestion for doing this without transferring the data?
Thank you
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Hello,
I am using DirectQuery to get data from a data warehouse that we built that we are constantly making updates to. We currently have a single data warehouse that we are connected to, made models off of, and created visualizations for in Power BI.
However, we have multiple data warehouses (with the same data) where we test in some and make changes and then copy it over to another (for example: a production data warehouse, a testing data warehouse, a quality data warehouse, etc.)
My question is, because it is the same data and tables (generally just added tables or fields are the only changes), is it possible to change the data source in Power BI but keep the same data models and visualizations that we created for the original data warehouse source that we used? Or is it not possible because it is a completely different data source?
Currently when I try I get an error that you cannot use more than one source for DirectQuery, I am wondering if there is a workaround for this.
Thanks!
CJ
Hi all
I am new to PBI and doing some tests to connect to a Wonderware Historian Database.
So far the direct Query works for some test tags!
If I need to pull in +/- 10000 Tags with a per second history (60*60*24 = 86400 data points /Tag/Day) this would be 315 Billion data point per Year for 10K tags.
Is the direct Query the best way and how do I refresh (update) the history to the current time?
The second question is with the PowerBI Gateway I connect this to PBI Cloud. how is the bandwidth affected with large data?
Has anyone done Wonderware Historian or process Historian integration like OSIsoft PI or Wonderware eDNA?
Thank you
Had a thought to do a hurricane data story. Can anyone assist in the M code to read a file like this:
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/tracks.atl
This has the information for how to read the file:
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/tracks_atl_readme.txt
Alternatively, does anyone know of any good quality hurricane data out there that is not a an utterly jacked-up format? I mean, seriously, who in the world creates a data format like that?
I know that you can pin a SSRS report to a Power BI Dashboard. I am using Power BI Report Server and was wondering if there is any way to embed and SSRS report from within a Power BI Report?
I have a feeling I know the answer, but I wanted to ask in case I was missing something.
Hi,
I have been through the other forum posts to find a solution to my issue, however, none of them has worked!
When I try to "Get Data > MySQL > connect", I receive :
I tried all the solutions I could find in the forum (installing the 64-Bit ODBC connector, as well as the Connector/Net one), and have restarted to see if there were any registry updates or other restart required issues.
> Computer: Windows 7 (SP1), 64-Bit
> MySQL - database and server all on the same PC, same harddrive etc.
I can't seem to get it to connect at all!
Any other suggestions: I would be very willing to try!
Kind regards
Neil
Any thoughts on how to proceed? I've installed the gateway previously on this machine. I've since uninstalled it and am now trying to reinstall, but am unable to. The installer doesn't even start or show an error message. Below are from the event viewer.
Faulting application name: PowerBIGatewayInstaller.exe, version: 14.16.6464.1, time stamp: 0x59c0a4e1
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.3.9600.18264, time stamp: 0x56e1bd71
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x0000000000008a5c
Faulting process id: 0x16ac
Faulting application start time: 0x01d3324480a34706
Faulting application path: C:\Users\fali\Downloads\PowerBIGatewayInstaller.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: be84aea6-9e37-11e7-8294-0023249da43f
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Application: PowerBIGatewayInstaller.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
at Microsoft.DataProxy.PowerBIInstallDownloader.LandingPageViewModel..ctor(Microsoft.DataProxy.PowerBIInstallDownloader.MainViewModel)
at Microsoft.DataProxy.PowerBIInstallDownloader.MainViewModel..ctor()
at Microsoft.DataProxy.PowerBIInstallDownloader.MainWindow..ctor()
Exception Info: System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException
at System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader.RewrapException(System.Exception, System.Xaml.IXamlLineInfo, System.Uri)
at System.Windows.Markup.WpfXamlLoader.Load(System.Xaml.XamlReader, System.Xaml.IXamlObjectWriterFactory, Boolean, System.Object, System.Xaml.XamlObjectWriterSettings, System.Uri)
at System.Windows.Markup.WpfXamlLoader.LoadBaml(System.Xaml.XamlReader, Boolean, System.Object, System.Xaml.Permissions.XamlAccessLevel, System.Uri)
at System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader.LoadBaml(System.IO.Stream, System.Windows.Markup.ParserContext, System.Object, Boolean)
at System.Windows.Application.LoadBamlStreamWithSyncInfo(System.IO.Stream, System.Windows.Markup.ParserContext)
at System.Windows.Application.DoStartup()
at System.Windows.Application.<.ctor>b__1_0(System.Object)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(System.Object, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32, System.Delegate)
at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeImpl()
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)
at MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext.Run(MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)
at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.Invoke()
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.ProcessQueue()
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.WndProcHook(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef)
at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef)
at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(System.Object)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(System.Object, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32, System.Delegate)
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.LegacyInvokeImpl(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority, System.TimeSpan, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32)
at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.SubclassWndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr)
at MS.Win32.UnsafeNativeMethods.DispatchMessage(System.Windows.Interop.MSG ByRef)
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.PushFrameImpl(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherFrame)
at System.Windows.Application.RunDispatcher(System.Object)
at System.Windows.Application.RunInternal(System.Windows.Window)
at Microsoft.DataProxy.PowerBIInstallDownloader.App.Main()
