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Whil etrying to connect to, upload, or import an Excel file, I repeatedly get the following error:
Something went wrong
Failed to publish Excel workbook
Please try again later or contact support. If you contact support, please provide these details.
Activity ID: 99380973-1a35-45e8-85a6-984bb186b65d
Request ID: ba14d55e-39ea-137d-8cac-a50293f601a5
Correlation ID: 0db066ce-5c09-553e-5750-4d479140f89e
Status code: 400
Time: Tue Mar 26 2019 11:35:24 GMT+0100 (CET)
Version: 13.0.8885.144
Cluster URI: https://wabi-us-north-central-redirect.analysis.windows.net
Hi @Anonymous
Do you connect excel file with Power BI Desktop ?
Or with Power BI Service to import or connect to an Excel workbook from Power BI ?
Or Publish to Power BI from Excel 2016 ?
Please note that:
From this article, we can know Power BI supports importing or connecting to workbooks created in Excel 2007 and later. Workbooks must be saved as .xlsx or .xlsm file type and be under 1 GB.
If these above don't slove your problem, please share the Excel file so that I can test to reproduce this issue on my side.
Best Regards
Maggie
Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Hi Maggie,
I am using PowerBI through the Web Browser (as there is no Desktop edition for MacOS).
The file is an .xlsx (Excel 2016), and is only 1.44MB. The file also has no macros, or VBA. It is located on my OneDrive which is attached to the same Office365 account that I use for PowerBI.
Unfortunately I cannot share the file, as the information in it is confidential. I just tried importing again, and got the following error:
Something went wrong
Failed to configure selected file
Please try again later or contact support. If you contact support, please provide these details.
Activity ID: 99380973-1a35-45e8-85a6-984bb186b65d
Request ID: 3fe816be-cc5b-40c8-f2d2-862469d74977
Correlation ID: 464753d3-56ea-97e7-bf38-6ebcecd2323f
Status code: 400
Time: Wed Mar 27 2019 08:26:16 GMT+0100 (CET)
Version: 13.0.8885.144
Cluster URI: https://wabi-us-north-central-redirect.analysis.windows.net
Hi @Anonymous
As tested, it works on my side.
Do you have a Power BI pro account?
If this problem still occurs, you could create a support ticket (free for pro users)
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/support/
Best Regards
Maggie
Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
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