Get certified for free when you join Fabric Data Days 2026 and dive into Fabric, Power BI, SQL, AI, and other essential data skills.
Join nowJuly 28 - August 9 | Final Round of the Power BI Dataviz World Championships. This is your chance. Learn more
Hi,
I am trying to write a custom function for retrieing the status of workitem using AzureDevOps REST api query in PowerQuery.
This is the query which currently I am using and not working,
// Define a function to retrieve work item status from Azure DevOps
GetADOWorkItemStatus = (Organization as text, Project as text, WorkItemID as number, Token as text) =>
let
// Build the REST API URL
url = "https://dev.azure.com/" & Organization & "/" & Project & "/_apis/wit/workitems/" & Number.ToText(WorkItemID) & "?api-version=7.1",
// Set up the request headers with the Personal Access Token
headers = [#"Authorization" = "Basic " & Text.ToBinary(Token)],
// Make the API request
response = Json.Document(Web.Contents(url, [Headers=headers])),
// Extract the status from the response
status = response[fields][State]
in
status
With this I am getting an error " Expression.Error: The 'Authorization' header is only supported when connecting anonymously."
Any hint how can I connect to ADO by passing PAT in PoweRQuery?
Hi,
I could connect to ADO using PAT with the help of Python query.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-python-scripts
def get_workitem_status(organization, project, work_item_id, personal_access_token):
authorization = str(base64.b64encode(bytes(':'+ personal_access_token, 'ascii')), 'ascii')
headers = {
'Accept': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Basic '+authorization
}
try:
# Make a GET request to the Azure DevOps REST API
# Azure DevOps REST API base URL
base_url = f"https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/wit"
# Work item API endpoint
api_endpoint = f"{base_url}/workitems/{work_item_id}?api-version=7.1"
response = requests.get(
url=api_endpoint, headers=headers)
# Check if the request was successful (status code 200)
if response.status_code == 200:
# Parse the JSON response
work_item_data = response.json()
# Extract and return the status of the work item
return work_item_data['fields']['System.State']
else:
# Print an error message if the request was not successful
print(f"Error: {response.status_code} - {response.text}")
return None
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")
return None
For creating a custom column we can use below snippet for creating new column "WorkItemStatus",
organization = "AAA"
project = "BBB"
personal_access_token = "<PAT>"
status_list=[]
for i in range(len(dataset)):
numberValue=str(dataset.iat[i,1]) //Here 1 is the column number where you have the data
status = get_workitem_status(organization, project, numberValue, personal_access_token)
status_list.append(status)
dataset['WorkItemStatus']=status_list
Connection to ADO using PAT using PowerBI Query is still failing.
Join us in Barcelona for FabCon and SQLCon, the Fabric, Power BI, SQL, and AI community event. Save €200 with code FABCMTY200.
If you love stickers, then you will definitely want to check out our community sticker challenge, Barcelona edition!
Check out the July 2026 Power BI update to learn about new features.