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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Salesforce Connection - Browser error

Hi,   I'm having trouble with the Salesforce (Objects) connector. It has worked perfectly this year, but lately it seems all our accounts on all pc's are unable to use it, and it looks like it mig...
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    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Hi, 

    This was fixed for me and I also managed to work-around the issue through Power Flow.

     

    The fix was that, the SF team had disallowed something (login?) in Salesforce in working with Internet Explorer. When they reversed this, everything worked again. This is on the lightning version. 

     

    However, I noticed I could still login through Excel and thought to try if I could login through the Flow interface and connected to the Flow source from Power BI. Maybe try to check if you can login through Excel (still Salesforce connection) or Flow.

     

    Best Rune

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Hi All,

 

Another option around the IE11 authentication issue is to create a salesforce object dataflow entity to which you can connect your PBI Desktop model - to be able to do that, access to an on-premise gateway or installation would be required.