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mhamdy
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5 years ago

The module named 'Html' has been disabled in this context

Hey Guys,   I am running a local power bi reporting server ( on-premises), one of my reports greps data from my company website ( hosted externally). After updating to October 2020, I noticed that ...
html
module removed
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Anonymous
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5 years ago

The html module is not available in Power Bi Report Server, this prevents refresh o reports that use data directly from html (if by the other hand you use well formatted data from web, such as CSv, xml, json refreshes should work fine). Can you confirm if your refreshes were working in previous releases? In the meantime we are clarifying in documentation exactly which m expressions are supported during refresh:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/data-sources

 

Thanks

gboreki

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    Hi gboreki,

    The option which you mentioned in the bracket is the one which my dashboard was collecting data from. 

    And after investigation I found it is partially working. Please refer to the image attached. There are tow Html formats. Html and Html (legacy). Both options refresh via Desktop version. And both also did for the May RS version. But since the October 2020, it refreshes only for Html and not for Html (legacy). Which is a serious pain, because what Html (legacy) used to do was provide the same snapshot of the xls spreadsheet data, whereas Html breaks the table into multiple tables. 

     

    Hope this helps your testing further.

     

    Regards,

    Modasher.

     

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      5 years ago

      Thanks for the context. If I understand your use case correctly you are loading files from a folder and processing them as html, but they are originaly excel files? and they can't be processed as excel files?

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        5 years ago

        Hi gboreki,

        Nope, unfortunately not. As the format is xls (an older version of xlsx), we needed to change it to another format when the error would come up (attached in image). After changing the format, the data would work and get scheduled refresh successfully back in May 2020.