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tssmch
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2 years ago

Power BI streaming datashet URL not supported - Too Long

Hello everyone,   I am trying to stream data from a Salto Systems (access control) server to Power BI but I am having an issue with the length of the Push URL.   The Salto server would not accept...
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lbendlin
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2 years ago

At a minimum you need the Semantic Model GUID and then Push Key.  There's no way around that.  However - that URL is static and I am surprised that you cannot do this via an URL shortener. Maybe these shortener services only work with GET request whereas the push obviously is a POST request.

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    tssmch
    New Member
    2 years ago

    Thanks for your reply,

     

    I guess what you are saying makes sense, on the other hand I wasn't expecting a url length limitation...

     

    Maybe there is a shortener that can send out POST requests... I will look into it

     

    I am now trying to work around the problem, by building a port listener that will be able to get the info from the server on a specific port and translate it into a powershell script that will send the real time data to power bi...

     

    Hope it will work