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Cookistador
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3 years ago

Power BI Customer web connector

Hello everyone,   Currently we are using Tableau for our reporting needs and a custom connector has been developed for this. We are looking at migrating from Tableau to Power BI and I would like t...
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3 years ago

Hi  Cookistador ,

You can refer the following links to get it:

Power Query Web connector - Power Query | Microsoft Learn

Solved: How to setting a dynamic URL connection - Microsoft Fabric Community

We could achieve this using the Get Data->connect to Web->Advanced settings.

Using the following URL as an example:

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-setting-a-dynamic-URL-connection/td-p/57072

First, we need select Connect to Web under Power BI Desktop, select Get Data->Others->Web, then choose Advanced, there would be URL parts listed, and we could click parts to add, when edited the part text box, there would be URL preview available, at here, separate the part that you would like to replace with Parameter, the /desktopfor example here:

Click OK, move to the Authentication page, after configure Authentication, the web content should be loaded for us to load/edit, choose edit. When Query Editor opens, click Manage Parameters, create a new parameter which would hold all the changed values, Type set to Text. See: 

After saving the new parameter, click on Data Source Settings->change source, on the drop down list under the left of the /Desktop, then select the Parameter, see:

Click OK to apply.

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