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Elsie14
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9 years ago

Error connecting to SharePoint online

Power BI desktop fails to connect to a sharepoint online datasource with the following error:   DataSource.Error: SharePoint: Request failed: <URL of my sharepoint site.xlsx>/_api/contextinfo   D...
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Elsie14
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9 years ago

I do. However it seems completely random. About an hour ago it worked (did not change anything).  Hoever if I move the folder to another destination on Sharepoint Online (where I have access) I get the same error again.

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

Hi Elsie14,

How about clearing credential of SharePoint Online source in your PBIX file and then connecting to it? And is there any possibility that your password is expired?

Thanks,
Lydia Zhang