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10 years ago

Get Tiles API - embedURL blank

Hello,   I am playing with the Power BI API, with the goal of using my Intranet MVC5 website to display Dashboards Tiles to users. However I am finding after querying some Dashboards, that the Til...
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psined
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9 years ago

I'm too having the same exact problem, except that tiles in a dashboard which I manually created return proper string in embedURL json property. However tiles on the dashboard which I imported during MSFT hands-on lab gives blank URL (just like in your case). The tile itself renders fine on Power BI web site. So I would like to know why would some tiles not return proper URL.

 

I tried manually make up the URL string from dashboard and tile IDs; the tile comes up without error, but I only see the "tile is loading" spinner and nothing else happens...

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    psined
    Regular Visitor
    9 years ago

    One more follow-up, should I try to render the actual report instead of the tile which has it, the report renders fine. But I would like to get tiles working as well. I know that there are support limitations for tiles featuring 3rd party visualisations, but in such cases I get a clear error message across the tile canvas - "the content is not supported". So I would agree with you that something must be wrong on the REST API side of things.

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      aibynn
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      9 years ago

      Just wondering if anyone has any information here? Trying to get some tiles to display, and while they return fine, the embedurl is always empty.

       

      Any ideas?