topic Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish in Dataflow

Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

AlanZ — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:52:44 GMT

Hello,

I have a Dataflow Gen2 failing to publish. I can click the "Publish" button in the bottom right, which works and takes me back to the Workspace page. On the workspace page, I can see the loading-circle working on publishing. It then gives me a failure symbol.

It is not failing to refresh-- refreshes actually work; it just fails to publish the changes I've made.

There's a red exclamation point error (in the publishing spot, not in the refreshing spot), but when I try to hover over it, this disappears and is replaced by the refresh / schedule refresh / etc. buttons. I'm not able to figure out any way to actually see the content of the error which should reveal why the dataflow cannot publish.

How it looks after publishing:

How it looks after I hold my mouse over the error:

Any ideas how I can see what the actual error is, preventing the dataflow from publishing?

Re: Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:20:47 GMT

Hi AlanZ
Thanks for using Fabric Community.
At this time, we are reaching out to the internal team to get some help on this. We will update you once we hear back from them.
Thanks

Re: Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

AlanZ — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:02:50 GMT

Thanks for your help, Anonymous ; let me know if they have any questions I can answer.

Re: Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

pqian_MSFT — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:44:34 GMT

AlanZ - can you click on the triangle ! sign, that should pop up a dialog with more error details

Re: Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

AlanZ — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:53:18 GMT

Thanks, pqian_MSFT . I was trying to explain above that I actually can't! When I move my mouse over the triangle ! sign, it's replaced by other options. I can't find any way to actually see what the error is.

I'm glad to message you a video if you that isn't clear. Not sure I want to make a video publicly visible in case there's any sensitive information I miss.

As soon as I move my mouse to hover over the triangle !, it's replaced with the refresh options.

How it looks after publishing:

How it looks after I hold my mouse over the error:

Re: Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

pqian_MSFT — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 22:06:31 GMT

The hover menu is paving over the ! sign, you can press (ctrl -) to zoom out enough so you give the ! enough real estate to paint again.

Re: Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

pqian_MSFT — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 22:07:05 GMT

Also I'll talk to the UI team to make sure the ! sign take painting precedence than the hover menu

Re: Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

AlanZ — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:06:25 GMT

pqian_MSFT , thanks very much. Glad you'll speak with the UI team.

Zooming is a great idea but doesn't actually let me hover over it-- unfortunately everything remains proportionate in the column so I still can't hover it without the triangle being covered up, even at 25% zoom!

I tried making the column wider, but at both 100% and 25% zoom, there's a max column width. I feel like, if there weren't a max cap on the column width when I manually resize it, it'd work.

So afraid I still can't see the hover message / error.

Re: Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

pqian_MSFT — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:39:46 GMT

Ah I see what the problem is, the columns already have min-width on them, so in theory they should accomodate the display of the ! sign. However, since your DF has long-ish names, the name field took over the space and pushed the ! to the right far enough that it gets painted over by hover buttons...

There is no workaround for this other than editing the DF and shorten the name for now. The UI team will need to fix this.

Re: Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

AlanZ — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:55:22 GMT

Thank you-- I think you understand the issue perfectly! It's not a problem to temporarily rename the DF to a short name and then reset it once I view the error-- this seems to work. Thanks for brining it up with the UI team. Let me know if there's anything I need to do to make sure they see the issue.

Re: Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

pqian_MSFT — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:01:11 GMT

Yes, they understand the issue. Thanks for reporting this bug.

Re: Can't See Why Dataflow Fails to Publish

cosmocracy — Fri, 23 May 2025 17:27:57 GMT

In my case the problem was I edited the dataflow (adding/changing columns a bit) but didn't re-visit the Mapping portion of the Connection. So basically the column definitions weren't aligned.