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Is there any way to programatically access data that has been transformed by Power BI to display in our own custom application?
I see this forum question (Get data using REST API) from February early this year (2017) and was curious if there were other options, if any headway has been made to fulfill that feature, or if I'm just straight out of luck.
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@willyt150 wrote:
That is correct. We'd like to make use of Power BI's abilities for polling and transforming the data and then use and display that information within our application without being required to display that data with Power BI visuals.
So far it is not possible, as I suggested, you can vote this idea REST API access to READ datasets up.
By the way, I do think there're various ways(eg. SQL Server Integration Service and other similar ETL tool, or even pure SQL if your data resides in databases, or through some dev language Google tells more) to pool and transform data besides Power BI.
You want Power BI Embedded:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/power-bi-embedded/
Thanks, but unless I'm missing something the only way I see to get at the actual transformed data is by embedding Dashboards, Reports, or Tiles.
The API appears to give access to almost everything except the actual data.
Ah, I may have misunderstood your need. It sounds like you want to take the transformed data and then USE it in some way within the application, not just display that information within the application, is that correct?
That is correct. We'd like to make use of Power BI's abilities for polling and transforming the data and then use and display that information within our application without being required to display that data with Power BI visuals.
@willyt150 wrote:
That is correct. We'd like to make use of Power BI's abilities for polling and transforming the data and then use and display that information within our application without being required to display that data with Power BI visuals.
So far it is not possible, as I suggested, you can vote this idea REST API access to READ datasets up.
By the way, I do think there're various ways(eg. SQL Server Integration Service and other similar ETL tool, or even pure SQL if your data resides in databases, or through some dev language Google tells more) to pool and transform data besides Power BI.
Bummer, but thank you very much for answering
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