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manojk_pbi
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Concatenated string or dynamic query in Power BI Service

Hi Friends,

 

I am using data from collections in TFS server, here i am concatenating the url on need basis and want to extract the data. This works fine in desktop. The is not working when deployed in service. I get the below error message. What could be the reason here for this failure and how this can be addressed. 

expecting some suggestions from expertise.

 

Thanks

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manojk_pbi
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if your question is about data gateway in desktop, not installed. I haven't installed any components

Greg_Deckler
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@manojk_pbi What's the failure message?



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Sorry, missed to attach in earlier post.

I am using the below function to call by using the URL of tfs collection and the queryID used in TFS for specific requirement. The same works when i directly use the plain query without all concatenation/variables

"https://<Org>/tfs/<Collection>/_apis/wit/wiql/<QueryID>?api-version=6.0"

 

function used : 

(WIUrl as text,WIQueryID as text, WICollection as text) as table =>
let
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents(WIUrl,
[RelativePath=WICollection& "/_apis/wit/wiql/"&(WIQueryID)&"?api-version=6.0"])),
workItems = Source[workItems],
#"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(workItems, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),
#"Expanded Column1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Converted to Table", "Column1", {"id", "url"}, {"Column1.id", "Column1.url"})
in
#"Expanded Column1"

manojk_pbi_0-1712057185877.png

 

@manojk_pbi Hmm, doesn't seem like it should require a gateway but do you have a data gateway installed?



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