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Power BI API – pulling data out from a visual to my web app

Hi everyone,

Not sure if this is possible yet, so I thought I would put it to the collective brilliance of the community. I am in the process of creating a webpage with a dashboard embedded on it. I would like to be able to pull information out from one of the visualizations (e.g. a table) and pass it back to the webpage.

 

For example, if I have a report showing customer support cases, and I start filtering on date opened, Account, Severity, etc., eventually I will identify a subset of cases that I want to act upon further. Does the API allow me to pull out information from the table (e.g. Case ID) and pass it back to my webpage where I can then pull any additional details or take whatever action I need to outside of Power BI? 

 

Thanks,

Scott

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Eric_Zhang
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AFAIK, it is impossible.

I think Power BI is for representation purpose only. Anyway you could submit an idea on Power BI Ideas and vote it up, though I doubt that MS would implement that feature as it is quite beyond the purpose based on my understanding.

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Thanks, @Eric_Zhang - though to say driving actions out of Power BI is beyond the scope is... worrying. I would say that engendering actionability from Power BI is precisly why it it needed. From ML to R to the full extensibility of the overall Microsoft Analytics platform, if it is not all driving to allow organizations to actually USE the data to drive next best actions, I would say that I, and a host of others, have misunderstood Microsoft's relative strength in the market. 

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I'd say that "beyond the purpose" is my personal understanding.

Actually the Power BI API has provided the features of creating a dataset and pushing data, maybe reading  the data is on the way, you could submit your idea and vote it up.

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