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Navigator Issue - Total Newbie

Hi All,   I'm a total newb with Power BI and using APIs in general, so please have patience with me!   I'm attempting to use Power BI to connect to a specialized ERP system to build a report.  Th...
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    7 months ago

    I found the issue!  On the vendor's website listing the various API endpoint URI's, they left off the trailing / character.  I was simply cutting and pasting the link into Power BI, which was enough to load the navigator menu but it failed when trying to retrieve data.  

    When I included the trailing slash character, the data preview loaded.  My next challenge is to figure out why the "Load" and "Transform Data" buttons don't activate, but for now I've made progress!