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Dinosauris
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Power Automate Flow does not Extract Data from Power BI visual

Hello,

 

I included in my Power BI Report a button which extracts data from the power BI reprot, with my guest account and admin account the data gets extracted as expected. However, for the users with the normal account it does not work. They can run the flow, but it fails where I want to set the field I extract to a variable. It looks tike the Power BI date is not getting extracted.

 

The Power BI report is in a Fabric workspace and it uses Direct Lake Connection to the lakehouses. Originaly the data is coming from dataverse. I've tried to add the users even as administrator on all the workspaces and on the Power Automate Flow I assigned them a system administrator role. However, nothing worked. Can you please help me out here? 

 

BR, Iris

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Dinosauris
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I was able to fix the error, the following happened:

The user accessed the Power BI in German language, however, I was accessing and designing the Power Automate Flow in English language. While the information which is generated by the Power BI flow such as username and timestamp is automatically translated in the language which the users use the fields extracted from Power BI where not. Meaning that I needed to change the naming of the Power BI fields to the German language. Very annoying bug which should get fixed by Microsoft. 🙂

 

Here is the screenshot which shows that the entities where extracted in German language, thus when calling them in English language it did not work:

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Thus I needed to change it from "Max of" to "Maximum von" as shown in the picture below:

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Dinosauris
Frequent Visitor

I was able to fix the error, the following happened:

The user accessed the Power BI in German language, however, I was accessing and designing the Power Automate Flow in English language. While the information which is generated by the Power BI flow such as username and timestamp is automatically translated in the language which the users use the fields extracted from Power BI where not. Meaning that I needed to change the naming of the Power BI fields to the German language. Very annoying bug which should get fixed by Microsoft. 🙂

 

Here is the screenshot which shows that the entities where extracted in German language, thus when calling them in English language it did not work:

Dinosauris_0-1713352733088.png

 

Thus I needed to change it from "Max of" to "Maximum von" as shown in the picture below:

Dinosauris_1-1713352780355.png

 

Anonymous
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Hi @Dinosauris ,

1. Ensure that the users with normal accounts have appropriate permissions on the Power BI report. They should have at least read access to the data sources used in the report.  Confirm that the users with normal accounts have sufficient permissions to run the Power Automate flow.
2. Review the Power Automate flow to ensure error handling is in place. The error message you provided ("BadRequest. The variable 'Approved_Version' of type 'Integer' cannot be null or empty value.") suggests that there might be an issue with how the variable 'Approved_Version' is being set or accessed. Make sure that the variable is initialized properly and that there are no scenarios where it could end up being null.

Best Regards,
Gao

Community Support Team

 

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