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Custom connector data refresh without gateway?
Hi, we are developing a custom connector between a cloudbased service (with SQL Server DBs for the data) and Power BI. The mez-file (connector) works fine in Desktop when refreshing the data. How...
For a true custom connector you need a gateway. You would need to get your connector accepted as an official third party connector to be included in the product.
Greg_Deckler Does this mean the Gateway/Power BI Service Refresh resources will be utilized for the Custom Connector Refresh? Or does the custom connector need a Gateway only for the initial handshake? We are trying to use live refresh as we get for Online data sources and would not want the data to come from our cloud source to On-Premise and then back again to the Service. Please advise.
Anonymous - I can't talk specifics on that, I suggest you track down the folks at Microsoft responsible for third-party connectors, there used to be a program for it that you could enroll in.