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bblais
Resolver III
11 years ago

Issue Connecting to Google Analytics

For weeks now I've been working with a person in my organization to connect to GA and create a dashboard to no avail.  She creates the dataset successfully and after the final step of logging into th...
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TPalmer
Microsoft Employee
11 years ago

I would suggest double checking the account/property/view values your providing as those values will be case and spacing sensitive. We're working to improve the validation flow but if the parameters are not provided correctly you may see the error experience you've described. The help documenation walks through where you can find these values in your Google Analytics account: https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/511323-google-analytics-content-pack-for-power-bi

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bblais
Resolver III
11 years ago

Thank you.  I had all the correct values for account/property/view the first time we successfully connected, but unbeknownst to me and my co-worker the account/property values changed in GA.  Once we got the correct values, it worked.

 

Thanks.

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    bblais
    Resolver III
    11 years ago

    This was my bad, but it would be great if the generic 400 status code error with no context or description could tell me that the values provided were invalid...

     

    Thanks,

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      cbousquet
      New Member
      10 years ago

      This seems to be a current issue still, with the exception that I have confirmed the Account, Property, and View settings (case sensitive) and still cannot load data in. Just errors out generically and puts me back to square 1.