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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Essbase connection to PowerBI services via Dataflow

Hi, 

 

A gateway has been set up to connect PowerBI services to essbase on prem but there is no entity availabile for a connection to essbase via dataflows (without publishing to Desktop) . Has anyone come up with a workaround?

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  • edhans's avatar
    edhans
    Community Champion
    5 years ago

    Unfortunately I do not think you can use custom connectors with DataFlows, and the essbase connector is in Power BI desktop only, not available via Power Query for DataFlows.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      5 years ago

      Thankyou! 

      Do you think there is a way to use power automate to create a custom connection and to deposit the dataset in PowerBi - keeping it linked in the cloud and avoiding desktop? Fairly new to creating custom connectors so not sure if it is possible. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    Anonymous 

    You cannot do that with power bi dataflow, but I found something relevant in Power Apps.
    Use a custom connector from a flow | Microsoft Docs

     

    You might want to go to Power App forum for the detail. 


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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    Or if there could be any other way to create link to an external data source that is currently not in the connector list in PowerBI services dataflow?