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Arie's avatar
Arie
Advocate IV
7 years ago

Custom Connector with local file

Hi, 

 

I have some authentication issues when importing a local files within a custom connector. 

Does anyone know if it is possible to import a local file with a custom connector?

 

Kind regards, Arie

 

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4 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    7 years ago

    I have exactly the same problem. Can't see documentation on this anywhere

    Username and password seem self-explanatory, but I have no idea what values are valid for IdentitySource

  • luisat's avatar
    luisat
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago

    Is this already solved?

     

    i want to combine some web.content queries and get the auth tokens from my local file system.

    getting data from web works fine but I can´t get data from my local file system...

     

    Regards,

    Luis

    • Arie's avatar
      Arie
      Advocate IV
      6 years ago

      No, I do still have this problem. Not solved yet.

       

      Regards, Arie

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      6 years ago

      I couldn't make this work and generally found custom connectors a bit of a pain to work with.

      What I've ended up doing is deploying some Azure Functions that effectively "proxy" requests through to the source data source, handle authentication (makes OAuth easy too), pagination etc.

      Then I've just secured those Azure Functions with basic auth and Power BI is happy to work with them