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JimAksel
New Member

PWA Deliverables

Using Power BI Desktop and have oData Connections to a Project Server 2013 PWA tenant.  One such table is the "Deliverables" table.  Also of interest is the Projects table and Tasks Table.  There are relationships between these tables.

 

However, when I go to link to the Deliverables Table during setup, I need to expand the Project section in the Deliverables Table to be able to see important parameters such as the source/destination file names of the deliverable, Task Related information such as Task UniqueIDs, etc. 

 

Unfortunately, when I expand the column(s) for Dependent Projects, Dependent Tasks, Partent Projects/Tasks, etc. and select the desired fields, it produces an error:  Unsupported query option encountered $expand.  Data Source kind: oData.

 

Any idea how to access these fields?

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charlie2k
New Member

Hi All,

 

Trying to revive this thread 🙂 I am also getting the same error for a OData Feed source.

 

DataSource.Error: OData: Unsupported query option encountered: $expand
Details:
DataSourceKind=OData
DataSourcePath=<#Removed the URL for my data source that was present here#>

 

Any help will be much appreciated! Thanks!

 

I was just told by Power BI tech support to expand that Projects section instead of using a merge. I get the same error though:  "DataSource.Error: OData: Unsupported query option encountered: $expand" and have reported this back to them. We'll see what they say since they suggested I do it in the first place.

 

In the meantime, I'll stick with what I've been doing, which is to add a merge step to the query, then expand the columns as needed.

Hi,

I am struggling with the same issue.  Did anyone work out a resolution on how to get access to the required information.  I am not experienced in how to use the merge feature to append the required data to the table so I can add it into my Visuals.

 

Any information would be appreciated.

 

Anonymous
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I am also having the same issue with the Deliverables. Connecting Power BI Desktop to Project online. 

I do believe the issue is when I look at the Deliverables table in the Query it is blank. I do not know why this table has no data as it seems there should be plenty looking at the titles of the columns. 

 

I am trying to have a report which lists all the projects then tasks with actual work hours. with no ParentIdName field this is very hard. 

cfzini
Frequent Visitor

Currently I am having a problem that looks like your.

 

I am conecting my data sources with the Enterprise's Project Server. Those projects have some customized Columns, as "% Buffer Consumed", "% Critical Chain Consumed", and others.

 

What I want is to expand my tables, to see these columns (e.g. Tasks Table), but when I do this, i get the same error:

  • DataSource.Error:
  • OData: A opção de consulta sem suporte encontrado $expand
  • Details: DataSourceKind=OData

If anyone knows how to solve this, i'd really be Thankful!

So this is pretty old, but did anyone ever figure out how to do this?  Or a workaround to bring in the deliverables + parenttasks details?

 

Trying to connect deliverables to related tasks, unfortunately no link except in the tables would like to expand but can't.

cfzini
Frequent Visitor

Currently I am having a problem that looks like your.

 

I am conecting my data sources with the Enterprise's Project Server. Those projects have some customized Columns, as "% Buffer Consumed", "% Critical Chain Consumed", and others.

 

What I want is to expand my tables, to see these columns (e.g. Tasks Table), but when I do this, i get the same error:

  • DataSource.Error:
  • OData: A opção de consulta sem suporte encontrado $expand
  • Details: DataSourceKind=OData

If anyone knows how to solve this, i'd really be Thankful!

pqian
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

It seems the OData endpoint did not implement the $expand operator, maybe the join is too expensive for the service? The only way you can get these data is by also importing the FK tables, and then do a local join via Merge.

hi, you mention FK tables ... where/how does one access these please?

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