Power BI addin/custom connector?

[Cookistador]

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

[Anonymous]

Hi @Cookistador ,

Thank you for reaching out to us with your question. I understand that you're in the process of migrating from Tableau to Power BI and you're looking for a way to replicate the functionality of a custom connector you've been using in Tableau. In Power BI, you can indeed create custom connectors, but the process is different from Tableau. Power BI custom connectors are developed using Power Query M language and not JavaScript. You can refer the following links to create a custom connector in Power BI:

Create a custom connector from scratch | Microsoft Learn

Power BI Custom Connector: Connect to Any Data Sources. Hello World! - RADACAD

Best Regards