How to call a Weservice in Power BI?

[sreedhary]

Hi,  for one of the report , we are in a need of calling a Webservice by passing the parameter and use the response in the report.

Is any one tried calling a Webservice in Power BI? If, Yes, what are the steps.

Please help.

Thank you!

Sreedhar

[v-diye-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @sreedhary 

Besides the suggestion from @parry2k , I would suggest this post by Chris Webb also,

https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2016/08/16/using-the-relativepath-and-query-options-with-web-contents-i...

You can create a parameterized function that takes in your data and calls the web service. Once you have the function you can add it as a custom column.  See the following sites for examples:

http://datachix.com/2014/05/22/power-query-functions-some-scenarios/

http://satalyst.com/power-query-creating-a-parameterized-function-in-m/

[parry2k]

@sreedhary check this link

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