Get Dashboards As Admin Expand Tiles Not Working

TravisKale — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:18:59 GMT

In PowerShell I am issuing the following to the Power BI API to get dashboards while expanding tiles:

$dashboardsApiUrl = "https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/dashboards?$expand=tiles" #$dashboardsApiUrl = "https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/dashboards/{dashboardGuid}/tiles" $apiDashboardsResult = Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod -Url $dashboardsApiUrl -Method Get echo $apiDashboardsResult

The call is successful, no errors, but the Json result does not contain a Tiles array. If I use the /tiles REST endpoint, as commented out on 2nd line, I can get tiles. Would be much more efficient in terms of time to execute if expand worked and I could avoid the roundtrip for each dashboard in the org. Am I doing something wrong or is the API busted? I believe I am following the Documentation to the letter. I don't see a way to get the Tiles collection using

Get-PowerBIDashboard -Scope Organization

Here is a full test case PowerShell script to show the issue:

Login-PowerBI $ApiUrl = 'https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/dashboards?$expand=tiles' echo $ApiUrl $apiResult = Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod -Url $datasourceApiUrl -Method Get #datasetId is a property on the tiles object, it should be found if tiles were included if($apiResult -like '*datasetId*') { echo "Found datasetId" } else {echo "Can't find word datasetId in result"} #control group, should find isReadOnly as it is part of the Dashboard Object and proving casing doesn't matter in search if($apiResult -like '*isreadonly*') { echo "Found IsReadOnly" } else {echo "Can't find word IsReadOnly in result"} $apiObjectResult = $apiResult | ConvertFrom-Json $dashboards = $apiObjectResult.value ForEach ($d in $dashboards) { ForEach($tile in $d.tiles) { echo "found a tile" echo $tile } } echo "done"

The output window shows the following:

https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/dashboards?$expand=tiles Can't find word datasetId in result Found IsReadOnly done

Re: Get Dashboards As Admin Expand Tiles Not Working

TravisKale — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 23:47:36 GMT

I discovered the "Try It" button on the API documentation page. After playing with this it gave me more meaningful responses then then the Power BI Invoke-PowerBiResetMethod cmdlet does. I discovered I needed to add the $top query parameter in order for the $expand parameter to take effect. When using the cmdlet it apears the behavior is just to throw out the $expand parameter if $top is missing and sweep it all under the rug pretending nothing happened. Final URL endpoint to get it working....

https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/dashboards?$expand=tiles&$top=5000

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