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Getting Process ID using M in Power BI desktop
Hello:
I am looking to be able to do something I have been able to do in Excel Add-ins with Power BI desktop and one of my needs is to be able to get the Process ID of the PBI client in order to pass this down to some HTTP(s) web service endpoints. Is there a way to do this? I looked at the existing functions and there is nothing that could help me?
Is there some type of workaround and/or will you be providing this in the future. M is powerful, but in order to be able to interoperate with web services, etc, there is other support needed.
Thanks for any help or insight anyone may have.
Luis.
There's currently no way to do this -- and to be honest, we're not likely to add it. But I'm still curious to understand how this is used by the web service you're trying to access.
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What Add-in for Excel are you using?
Add ins that we have written. We can't do that with PBI desktop and I am primarily trying to do this thru M from PBI Desktop not Excel and/or power query in Excel.
There's currently no way to do this -- and to be honest, we're not likely to add it. But I'm still curious to understand how this is used by the web service you're trying to access.
this allows us to maintain context from where requests are coming from. When requests come into load balancers, you always get the same IP not the original IP the request came from.
What's the unit of granularity that would be most useful here? The machine? The query? A single process can be used for multiple queries, and the same (or similar) queries could come from multiple processes.
