OData

[LewisH]

We are trying to implement the use of Power BI Dashboards within or business. I am connecting Power Bi to our Nav Database via an OData connection. The connection works fine and data comes through as expected, no worries here. However If I log into Navision or have it open (Have a connection) i get the following Error When I try and do anything essentially, i.e refresh, Modify Queries etc.

DataSource.Error: Microsoft.Mashup.Engine1.Library.Resources.HttpResource: Request failed: OData Version: 3 and 4, Error: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request. (Bad Request) OData Version: 4, Error: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request. (Bad Request) OData Version: 3, Error: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request. (Bad Request) Details: DataSourceKind=OData DataSourcePath= (This would be my OData Path)

Any ideas will be appreciated.

[hugoberry]

Something from MSDN, might be relevant for your case

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt634540(v=nav.90).aspx

Credential Lifetime

After having prompted for Basic credentials, the credential are persisted by application and used for as long as they are valid in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. However, the picture is more complicated for OAuth because the security tokens that are used for authentication have a limited lifetime. The code to obtain OAuth credentials was as follows:

The AuthenticationResult actually contains two tokens:

The accessToken is the one that is actually used when the client application calls the web service. The access token is relatively short-lived (one hour, subject to change), and when it expires, the client application needs a new access token.

The refreshToken lives much longer (6 months, subject to change), and it can be used to get a new access token:

On this forum I've seen this problem being resolved when you start refreshing your NAV datasest via the gateway

[LewisH]

Thank you for the reply, I've looked into this and don't think this is the casuse. The connection is always fine if no one is on the nav service, it is only until someone logs in it will error. Refreshing the gateway every time this occurs isn't really a viable option. 

[Anonymous]

Hi @LewisH,

Do you use Power BI Desktop or Power BI Service to connect to Nav?  Have you checked the steps in this article?

Thanks,
Lydia Zhang