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kendalldiviney
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Power BI refresh error

I am getting a Power BI error message when attempting to refresh, "web.contents failed to get contents from SharePoint".

 

My reports just got fixed with the June 2023 update, worked for about a week, and now I am back to the same type of data refresh issue that I was previously facing. Power BI is not wanting to upload our data from Share Point anymore for some reason. I changed nothing in my reports after them functioning smoothly for over a year, and then all of a sudden they will no longer refresh. 

 

Clearing permissions and everything else I have tried has not resolved this issue.

 

Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this issue?

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vicky_
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When this happenes to me, this is usually because something in the original sharepoint file has changed - e.g. someone added a new column, there's a value of the wrong type in one of the columns. I suggest going back to the source file on sharepoint and trying to figure out where the problematic cell(s) are.

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