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PatrickHart
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9 years ago
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400 when pushing a date to Power BI

Hi I am trying to push some data to Power BI. My json looks like this:  { "Backup": "3", "Restore": "1", "DateTime": "2016-09-26T20:14:26:047Z" }   The DateTime is a date in Power BI. If...
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    sirui_sun
    9 years ago
     
    Hey Patrick - 
     
    Here is an example of a date string that Power BI expects:
     
    "2016-09-30T00:13:00.107Z"
     
    You can see this by going to streaming datasets, and creating an API streaming dataset with data of type DateTime.
     
    I noticed that in your initial example, you had another colon between seconds and milliseconds - have you tried your initial format but with a period instead of colon?
     
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Eric_Zhang
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9 years ago

PatrickHart

 

Based on my test, Neither Power BI desktop nor the REST API server(400 in my test) can recognize that format datetime string.

A formated string as "2016-09-26 20:14:26" should work.