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jsquaredz
Advocate I
10 years ago
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Query Timeout on update

I am pulling in an update from a web source, but this source can take 3 minutes + to return data.  Power BI times out before the server responds.  I would like to adjust this timeout timer.  Can we m...
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  • ankitpatira's avatar
    ankitpatira
    10 years ago

    jsquaredz What you need to do is in power bi desktop go to query editor then right click your web data source and click Advanced Editor. This will give you access to M code behind it. You need to specify timeout interval in there manually. See below image and then should work hopefully.

     

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ankitpatira
Community Champion
10 years ago

jsquaredz What you need to do is in power bi desktop go to query editor then right click your web data source and click Advanced Editor. This will give you access to M code behind it. You need to specify timeout interval in there manually. See below image and then should work hopefully.

 

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Anonymous
Not applicable
6 years ago

I have this issue in excel where I am referencing a URL in a table. How would this solution be applied as per below?

 

= Excel.Workbook(Web.Contents(
let
Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(),
SpmReports = Source{[Name="SpmReports"]}[Content],
#"Report URL" = SpmReports{6}[Report URL]
in
#"Report URL"
), null, true)