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SteBr
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5 years ago
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Power BI - Dynamic M Query Parameter binding not shown

I have the same problem as described in here, the only difference is, that the proposed solution (restart Power BI ) does not work.  I've copy&pasted everything (query and structures) from the examp...
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  • SteBr's avatar
    SteBr
    5 years ago

    I've found the root cause by myself: the query type was not (automagically) set to "direct query".

     

    After setting up everything manually I could finally see the parameter binding option. 

     

    DaveHowe maybe this could help you as well?

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kjerez
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5 years ago

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SteBr
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5 years ago

kjerez DaveHowe The data source in my testing environment doesn't support directQuery, that was the root cause. You can find a list of supported data sources here: https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/power-bi/connect-data/power-bi-data-sources

I'm using text/csv at the moment so I can't make use of dynamic m query parameters at the moment. 

 

With setting up manually I was referring to the step-by-step example shown in the blog post . When I tried this (including the GitHub demo data source everything was working as expected.