Salesforce dataset to connect to custom objects and fields

[blphu]

First of all, very impressive with the features Power BI Public Preview, I have one question regarding the Salesforce Dataset though, can it connect to custom objects? I've looked but can't find where it can. Thanks!

[jhunter2]

This one seriously needs to happen. I could be entirely operating with a connection between Power BI Cloud and SFDC, however I can't because nearly all the tables I need to get to aren't available. This would also solve my problem of having to do a local gateway to pull data down from SFDC to get these fields and make refreshing in general a better experience. If your offering a cloud service - direct, and fully functioning cloud connectors is a must, please don't limit us.

[lesleyecole]

I would love to live link Salesforce to Power BI, but without custom fields, Power BI remains almost unusable for my work. Please help!

[clark_walliser]

Our company currently uses Domo BI, and I'm doing a comparison with Power BI. We use both Salesforce and Dynamics AX (moving to D365). The Domo ability to do a SOQL query is setting it apart from Power BI at this point. A lot of the other features of Power BI are great, but we can't get to the SalesForce custom objects/data.

[fbcideas_migusr]

Not sure if it falls in this same category but it will be useful also to be able to use a custom report type as a data source.

[simon_nuss1]

If anyone is interested, I've developed two custom Salesforce connectors that enable you to: (1) Execute custom SOQL queries; and (2) Extract Salesforce metadata

[sgoley]

'@Simon - would be very interested in seeing the custom Salesforce connectors mentioned for custom SOQL + SF Metadata

[vijaya_narkar]

Any updated on this. Please share!

[Teresa_Fitzpatr]

'@Simon - I would also be interested. Having issues refreshing Salesforce dataset in the PBI Service due to the limitation that one user can only run 10 queries at a time so keep getting the infamous "invalid query locator" error 😞 This is fixed on desktop by disabling parallel loading of tables.

[damo_moreira]

Has anyone found a solution that works for this? Please share!

[fbcideas_migusr]

Why no progress even after 5 years?