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mcarter
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9 years ago
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Embedded visuals stop loading (DirectQuery)

This used to work fine but recently when we came to use it it's no longer working we just get the message "Couldn't retrieve the data for this visual"   We created the app from the sample in GitHu...
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    mcarter
    9 years ago

    Update

     

    Found the issue. After updating the desktop app to the version released the other day this now displays the same error as the embedded reports, however it actually gives more info. 

     

    Basically caused by database columns being of type "text". Changing them to type nvarchar has resolved the issue.

     

    Pretty poor that the embedded report gives so little info as to what the issue is and also that it's only the very recent version of the desktop app that displayed the same issue, the previous desktop app versions all displayed the report correctly...

mcarter's avatar
mcarter
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

Update

 

Found the issue. After updating the desktop app to the version released the other day this now displays the same error as the embedded reports, however it actually gives more info. 

 

Basically caused by database columns being of type "text". Changing them to type nvarchar has resolved the issue.

 

Pretty poor that the embedded report gives so little info as to what the issue is and also that it's only the very recent version of the desktop app that displayed the same issue, the previous desktop app versions all displayed the report correctly...