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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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skmcken
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8 years ago

The 'Common Data Service for Apps Connection' links to the Dynamics Instance If you are using CDS 2 and Model Apps. That does not mean that you have Dynmics 365 Deployed.

 

I believe the 'Common Data Service' connection only now links to your default Instance of CDS which in my case has not been updated to CDS 2.

 

Any of my new Environments using CDS 2 can be linked to using the Apps Connection Model. 

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sxt173
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8 years ago

Solved: (I'm not certain this is the same across all deployments) the Server Url is https://xxxxxxxxx.crm.dynamics.com/ where the "xxx" is the unique Environment ID that you are given in a CDS v2 environment.

 

Thanks for the info. I spent (what seemed way too long) to transfer my entities and apps to a new CDS v2 environment. It seems the import/export is not fully functional but that is to be expected.

 

So I'm still lost as to what Url I input in Power BI when on this screen. The App URL does not give me anything so is there a server address that I'm totally missing?