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RockOfRockyTop
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8 years ago
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Rest API With User Selected Parameters As Data Source

I'm new to Power BI and have no experience developing in neither it nor Power Query. I have a RESTful API that I would like to use as a data source for my dashboards. The methods that are part of thi...
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8 years ago

RockOfRockyTop,

To add data source parameter in your URL, please check my reply in the following similar threads.

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Dynamic-connection-to-Web-URL/m-p/346607#M155589
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Integrations-with-Files-and/Parameters-for-JSON-API-data-Maintain-Query-daily/m-p/157925/highlight/true

After create reports in Power BI Desktop, you may also need to create Power BI template file for user to instantiate.

Regards,
Lydia

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Farhad88
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2 years ago

Hi RockOfRockyTop ,

 

Thanks for providing the solutions in the similar threads. I visited them, however, I need to cover the following scenario which is a little different (screenshot attached):

My client wants to retrieve data from a Rest API data source based on a daynamic parameter (e.g., StartDate). And he wants to select the parameter value using a slicer. 

As you know, it is fairly easy to do so using DirectQuery on SQL data source, but I cannot use the same solution for a Rest API data source (because the value of the parameter would be always the same as its defualt value!). 

Do you think there might be any solution to this issue?

 

Thanks and best regards,

Hossein