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mparravani
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

Connect to Bamboo's REST API- Error"Web API key can only be specified when API key name is provided"

Hello,   I'm relatively new to PowerBI, and am trying to connect to Bamboo's Open API (REST API).    My workflow is going through PowerBI's "New Source" --> "web" --> in "basic" I enter Bamboo's ...
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Jimmy801
Community Champion
6 years ago

Hello Domenick 

 

normaly these sites have a help for developers where the specify the APIs available and how they work. Normaly different APIs are available, depending on witch data you need to get. And all of these APIs have different access modes and answers (that you need to do loops on the data, because normaly APIs are passing limited datasets).

 

Hope this helps a bit

 

Jimmy

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Domenick
Helper IV
6 years ago

Yes, Jimmy801, I've found the documentation here, but it feels like there's a lot missing. They give basic guidelines about API calls, but I don't know all the paths I would need to pull the data I want.

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    Jimmy801
    Community Champion
    6 years ago

    Hello Domenick 

     

    any news on this?

     

    Jimmy

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      Domenick
      Helper IV
      6 years ago

      Thanks for asking Jimmy801. I haven't made any progress because I'm still lost, i.e.:

      - Where would I put a block of code that large when pulling data in PowerBI? And which language am I using?

      - How do I learn all the field names and how the data is structured on BambooHR's end? Is it not set up as a relational database?

       

      I'm planning to give this another good effort next week, but I need a break from spinning my wheels. Plus, I need to be able to show some sort of productivity here at work ğŸ˜…

       

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