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Mohammadshareef
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9 years ago

Can't connect to Power Apps Common Data Service??

Hi PowerBI Team I have built a Power App that stores data in the Common Data Service. We captured a bunch of data in the app. I went to connect to the Common Data Service in Power BI Desktop (yes, I...
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sxt173
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8 years ago

Still no availability and it's a year later since they said "they are proud to announce availability". The latest Power BI update also has Common Data Service for Apps as a beta connector but zero information on how to use it. Any and all server URL's I tried end up saying the address does not point to a database.

The standard Common Data Service connector has gone back to the "Not available in your Region" (USA) message.

This is getting very frustrating because it's been a year since they announced it first and we have multiple CDS datasets behind Apps that we are currently in parallel maintaining in a seperate DB since we can't just use that data in Power BI.

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skmcken
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8 years ago

I successfully managed to connect to that Service Yesterday and, it did exposes all the entities within the CDS Model. In the Server URL, I used the dynamic.crm URL.