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RSGhelp
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6 years ago
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Scheduled refresh not working for web source

I'm trying to schedule a resfresh but I am getting the following error    Processing error: Web.Contents with the Content option is only supported when connecting anonymously   It is cor...
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  • RSGhelp's avatar
    RSGhelp
    6 years ago

    I fixed this by adding [Headers =[#"Authorization"="Basic  XXXXXX"] to my source call.

    The XXXX is username:password encoded in base 64. (google it for a converter)

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RSGhelp
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6 years ago

Yes, I use the "basic" login functionality which uses a username and a password. The data refreshes fine in PowerBI desktop. The trouble comes when using the scheduled refresh on the app.powerbi.com. 

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Greg_Deckler
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6 years ago

RSGhelp - I'm thinking support issue then, it's notoriously hard to troubleshoot Service refresh errors most times.