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chaz2jerry
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5 years ago

XMLA endpoint usage by external user

According to the article below, we can have external users connect to XMLA endpoint of premium datasets.  So in theory we can use Tableau desktop, connect to a shared dataset as directquery / live co...
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collinq
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5 years ago

Hi chaz2jerry ,

 

I do not know much about XMLA but I did find these two articles about how this should be working.  Let us know if that helped!

Power BI open-platform connectivity with XMLA endpoints public preview | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI

“Live” Web Services Connections in Tableau | Tableau and Behold!

 

I would appreciate Kudos if my response was helpful. I would also appreciate it if you would Mark this As a Solution if it solved the problem. Thanks!

 

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    chaz2jerry
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    5 years ago

    Thanks collinq  I checked the two articles but they don't seem to solve my scenario.  The first article includes documentation for XMLA Endpoint, but doesn't specify how to connect to it from external B2B user.