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I have a pretty simple Power BI dataset with 4 queries.
The first query retrieves an access_token from an API:
= () => let
url = "https://api./.../application",
headers = [#"Content-Type" = "application/json"],
postData = Json.FromValue([applicationId = 123, applicationSecret = "123"]),
response = Web.Contents(
url,
[
Headers = headers,
Content = postData
]
),
access_token = Json.Document(response)[accessToken]
in
access_token
The other queries use the dynamically generated access token and retrieve data from the API:
let
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://api./...", [Headers=[token=GetToken()]])),
# ...
# ...
in
# ...
It all works fine and I can refresh the data if I click "Refresh" in the dataset in the Power BI desktop application.
What I want to do though is to publish the dataset to Power BI service and schedule a refresh.
In order to do so I need to edit the credentials somehow:
What do I need to do here in order to regularily configure a Scheduled Refresh?
Thank you
Update:
If I try and establish the data connection to the Web API without a dynamic token that uses a POST request to get the token for the API, meaning by getting a token value in Python by using the POST request and putting it into the data connection pane:
This works fine after publishing it to Power BI Service and clicking on "Refresh Now" -> No Error.
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