topic Re: Power BI Api to get parent dataset id by report id in Report Server

Power BI Api to get parent dataset id by report id

Zed101 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:23:18 GMT

If I have a report which is getting data from a dataset 1 which itself is getting data from another dataset 2, how to get dataset 2 id through report id as we can only know id of dataset 1, using api getDatasets(group id, report id).

Till now, I'm using an approach not very performant, which is like once I get datasource for dataset 1, I compare datasource name with all datasets database connection names, to filter out parent datasets.
As you can see in above, each time a call to get all datasets is time consuming.

Is there any better way to do this using either one or multiple api calls?

Re: Power BI Api to get parent dataset id by report id

lbendlin — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:22:15 GMT

Datasets - Get Datasources In Group - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn

and so on.

Re: Power BI Api to get parent dataset id by report id

Zed101 — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 08:04:00 GMT

This step is followed as part of my approach, however, there is no dataset id in response, only datasource information.

Re: Power BI Api to get parent dataset id by report id

lbendlin — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:20:56 GMT

"server" points to the workspace

"database" points to the dataset

Re: Power BI Api to get parent dataset id by report id

EternalST — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:42:08 GMT

Hi thanks for the post and I am just experiencing the same problem. I am using the exact API you mentioned the problem is "database" only returns dataset name instead of dataset id, but the get dataset requires dataset id... so do you might know a better way? Thank you!

Re: Power BI Api to get parent dataset id by report id

lbendlin — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:46:29 GMT

You are supposed to have harvested the dataset IDs in the previous step. The API call for this thread is focusing on the data sources.