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caseylide
4 years agoFrequent Visitor
Recently created datetime fields in Azure DevOps cause ODATA query failure - major issue
Hi. An "Unable to Connect" error is encountered when using Power BI Desktop ODATA Feed to query of Azure DevOps Work Items. Here is a simple step-by-step to illustrate the unlikely issue: 1. Cre...
v-chenwuz-msft
4 years agoCommunity Support
Hi caseylide ,
It seems that Power BI does not support adding custom fields. Please do the calculation on Power BI for the original OData content.
For more details, you can refer this link.
Best Regards
Community Support Team _ chenwu zhu
caseylide
4 years agoFrequent Visitor
Turns out that Power BI does support ODATA query of Azure custom fields. The problem is that there is a long delay before the inner wrokings get updated appropriately. After you creat a new custom field in Azure, it can take while before the internal data model is updated to enable a successful ODATA query. I've been observing delays of up to a couple hours. However, I've seen some posts from people who have observed up to a day or two.