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Anonymous

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7 years ago

Get data from website without opening url

Hi, I've been working on a internal Power BI training SharePoint as an introduction to Power BI to new users when Power BI is rolled out across the office. For this, data is taken from a Wiki...

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7 years ago

hi, Anonymous

I have test many times, Whether I open the url or not, It could be done without opening the url in IE first.

Get data from website directly without opening url

Please upgrade Powerbi DeskTop to the latest version and then try it again.

Best Regards,

Lin

Anonymous
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7 years ago
v-lili6-msft LivioLanzo

I updated Power BI to the October update to try Livio's suggestion and it seems to have solved the issue.

It will now get the tables correctly without opening it in IE first, even after clearing cache and restarting.

I will ask other people in the office to try this out and see if this is completely solved.

Thanks to both of you,
Calvin
- Anonymous
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  7 years ago
  Update on the update.
  
  This worked for me yesterday and this morning but after trying it again for a third time today I recieved the same error as before when opening it in Chrome before IE. (Table titled document, gives "could not find column 'rank'" error)
  
  It seems that updating to the newest version has not solved the issue as I had hoped. :smileysad:
  - v-lili6-msft
    Community Support
    7 years ago
    hi, Anonymous
    My colleagues and I have tested it many times, it works well, could you show us your power bi desktop version?
    and if the same problem occurs on other computers?
    
    Best Regards,
    Lin

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