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Sagarkansal
Helper I
Helper I

Connect Epicollect 5 with Power BI Online/Desktop

Epicollect 5 is an offline Mobile app (On field Data collection) and Server (Online Server storage of uploaded data) model system. I wish to connect to the Epicollect 5 server but am not able to do so. How can this be achieved?

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v-yuezhe-msft
Microsoft
Microsoft

@Sagarkansal,

There is no built-in connector for Epicollect 5 in Power BI.

You would need to contact Epicollect 5 support to check if it has OData feed available or a backend database or how to use its API to retrieve data. It is possible to connect to database in Power BI Desktop, and you can connect straight to the OData feed from Power BI Desktop or use the web entry in Power BI desktop to connect to API.

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
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HI @v-yuezhe-msft...

 

1. Here is the link to my Project https://five.epicollect.net/project/pet-mahyco/data

 

2. Here are the

a. API Parameters of my project

 

project PET Mahyco

slugpet-mahyco
refbee18fcf35f243f6aab32d5090113607

 

b. API End Points

Resource Endpoint

Projecthttps://five.epicollect.net/api/export/project/pet-mahyco
Entries - PET 2016https://five.epicollect.net/api/export/entries/pet-mahyco?form_ref=bee18fcf35f243f6aab32d5090113607_...

Mapping: EC5_AUTO (default)


Branch - PET future

https://five.epicollect.net/api/export/entries/pet-mahyco?form_ref=bee18fcf35f243f6aab32d5090113607_...

 

3. Here are the Project definitons in this link https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvqPBdmOr62Ihn_DXJiHZrjQTbge

 

4.  Here are the App details (I dont knw the meaning...creator has made it like that)

AppsCREATE NEW APP
Name Client ID Client Secret Created At    
 PET Mahyco 274 eizq6BOWyeVlFfCpUV36JVbVmoPRKXmKzcJHyP8s07/02/2018 14:22  

 

4. Their API gude is As Follows https://epicollect5.gitbooks.io/epicollect5-api/content/

 

 

Hi @Sagarkansal did you manage to get this to work?

@Sagarkansal,

Please review the following articles to use Power Query to connect to your API.

https://jessedotnet.com/2016/06/24/power-bi-connect-to-your-secure-api/
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt260892.aspx

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
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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