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Cookistador
Super User
2 years ago

Power BI addin/custom connector?

Hello everyone,

 

I'm currently working on a migration from tableau to Power BI, but in tableau, a custom connector in javascript has been deployed.
According to tableau Documentation, this is the step required to build this kind of connector:dd

 

  • Step 1: Configure your connector’s properties
  • Step 2: Create the user interface
  • Step 3: Edit the connector object
  • Step 4: Update the fetcher file
  • Step 5: Configure how the data is presented
  • Step 6: Build your connector

 

This connector allows users to select some fields, then a request is send to a server via API, and the result return a table with the selected columns. I had a look on cusotm connector in Power BI, but it is not the same than in talbeau, I read all documentation about Power BI sdk and Watched many videos on youtube, but I found nothing relevant...

So is there a way to embedded this frontend application, translate it into query, send the query to the web site and send back the right data?

 

Have I to build a custom connector? Or is have I to develop an addin like in Excel?

 

Many thanks in advance for your help

 

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