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MilliePowerBI
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2 years ago
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Dataflows not available in Get Data

Hello all,    I have recently been issued with a new work laptop (yesterday). When I open Power BI and go Get Data, Dataflows appears on the list, but when I click it, nothing happens.    I...
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    MilliePowerBI
    2 years ago

    rajendraongole1 Anonymous 

     

    Thanks for your help, but I think I have this one solved. 

     

    For anyone else who may be reading along, or one days finds this thread - what turned out to be the issue here for me was; 

     

    There is a Programs Files folder 

    C:\Users\USERNAME\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop Store App\CertifiedExtensions

    on my new laptop, this was completely empty. On my old laptop, this had 112 .pxq files, one of which was "PowerPlatformDataflows.pqx"

    I copied all the files from this folder on my old laptop and pasted them into the empty folder on the new laptop, closed Power BI, rebooted the computer and now everything works as normal. 

     

    Why this folder remained empty throughout multiple uninstall/reinstalls and roll backs to previous versions, I cant answer. I dont know why this was the case. But once I copied everything over - BOOM - back in business. 

     

    Hopefully this helps someone else in the future. 

     

    Thanks again to rajendraongole1 & Anonymous  for their help up to this point. 

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rajendraongole1
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2 years ago

Hi  -Try the following steps:

  1. clear cache of your desktop:

    Turn to menu bar-> click“file”-> “options and settings”->”options”, then under “global ”->”data load”, find “clear cache”:

     

     

     

     2.Then turn to the menu bar,  click “Home”->”edit queries’’->”data source settings”, then find “Global Permissions”->”clear permissions”：

     

     

    3.Finally “Get Data” from “Power BI datasets”, you will find a “sign in ”window->”Sign in”:

     


      

    Hope this time would help.

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MilliePowerBI
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2 years ago

rajendraongole1 

 

Thank you for your efforts, but I followed these steps and the same issue persists. 

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    rajendraongole1
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    2 years ago

    Hi MilliePowerBI - as suggested by Anonymous - can you try to rollback to old versions. if it is required to use dataflow

     

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      MilliePowerBI
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      2 years ago

      rajendraongole1 & Anonymous 

       

      Hey thanks again for your efforts to this point. 

       

      I have uninstalled June 2024 and rolled back to both April and May 2024

      Same issue on both#

      I think I might get IT to wipe and reinstall my new laptop. Its only two days old at this point, maybe nuking the site from orbit is the only way to go! 

       

      Do you guys have any other ideas?