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Merging Columns in Data Source

I am using a web data source for power BI (an API from our organizations database) and when it imports to PowerBI is columns are merged. Then when I try to expand the columns it's only giving me one of the columns that was merged (there's only 1 column option and the name is "Element:Text"). How do I either stop it from merging when importing the data or expand the columns so I'm getting all the actual columns. 

 

Thanks in advance,

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lbendlin
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what's the output format of that API, JSON?

Anonymous
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XML

see if you can force it to output JSON instead (Header accept = application/json).

 

Can you post sample data?

 

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