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swatson
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Power BI Web - Data Gateway

Hi,

 

I am wanting to create a series of reports/dashboards online that are refreshable.

 

Ultimately I want the ability to create an app for my business that I can update and that my board can then see those changes and consume the data.

 

I am new to the product but have already created a gateway and done some work in power bi desktop, but when I try to replicate this online I am unable to do so. I tried to open the powerbi desktop save file in th eonline platform, which did work, but wouldn't update due to needing a personal gateway...

 

So I guess my question is, how I ustilise my organization gateway, with configured data sources, Online so that they are refreshable and I can package them into an APP. I have been scouring the powerbi documentation but have so far come up short.

Thanks

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Eric_Zhang
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@swatson wrote:

Hi,

 

I am wanting to create a series of reports/dashboards online that are refreshable.

 

Ultimately I want the ability to create an app for my business that I can update and that my board can then see those changes and consume the data.

 

I am new to the product but have already created a gateway and done some work in power bi desktop, but when I try to replicate this online I am unable to do so. I tried to open the powerbi desktop save file in th eonline platform, which did work, but wouldn't update due to needing a personal gateway...

 

So I guess my question is, how I ustilise my organization gateway, with configured data sources, Online so that they are refreshable and I can package them into an APP. I have been scouring the powerbi documentation but have so far come up short.

Thanks


@swatson

I'm not clear on your question. For refreshing data, there're quite approaches, besides gateway. What do you mean "package them into an APP"?

Sorry I should have been clearer.

 

I use want to use SQL Views (from my local SQL Server), and ODATA from my NAV installation.

 

I think I have now figured out the ODATA stream. I need to set up AD Sync between my Azure 365 account and my internal AD then this should work. I am still unsure of how to consume the SQL datasource in PowerBI online.

 

In regards to the 'App', I want to create a series of reports and dashboards and be able to distribute them to other people in my organisation.

 

I hope this clears things up a little

 

Thanks for your assistance

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