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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Get Data is greyed out

I haev a dashboard with 2 data sources on Sharepoint Folders. refreshes OK . I do not see the Data and Datamodel tabs on the left side. When I want to add a third data source, Get Data is greyed out....
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v-yuta-msft
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7 years ago

Anonymous ,

 

Have you connected to some data source in live connection mode? Could you clarify more details?

 

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

I have replied three times to this thread, each time the message is not recorded.

 

The issue is that PBI desktop considers connectsion to PBIU Service datasets to be LIVE connections,m whereas the PBI datasets are not LIVE, they are excel sheets in Sharepoint folders on an ourly update. that is not LIVE.

 

I do not have a work-around. 

 

It is a severe limitation of the toolset, that it cannot recognize the correct configuration of data sources.

  • mattneil's avatar
    mattneil
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    7 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

     

    As mentioned above it sounds like the Report you're working on was created using a Live connection to an existing Power BI dataset.

     

    To add another data source, you'll have to get the .pbix file for the original report dataset and edit/republish there.

     

    In the Workspace go to Datasets, then download the .pbix file from the relevant one.

     

    Cheers,

    Matt

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    d_gosbell
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    7 years ago

    So a "LIVE" connection really just means that the data is stored else where it is not really a reflection of how often the data is updated.

     

    If I'm guessing correctly you probably have a situation like the following

     

    Report2.pbix   ==(live connection)==>  Report1.pbix  ==(import)==> Excel sheets in Sharepoint

     

    If you edit Report2 you will not see any data or relationships tabs and Get Data will be greyed out. However If you open Report1 you will then be able to access Get Data and add a new data source and when you go back and open Report2 you will see the new data there automatically (that is why the connection is called a "live" connection)