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Bobbertsan
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PowerBI Rest API

OK. I am new at PowerBI Rest API as well as M query language. My boss wants me to use PowerBI API web connection to get all report info for all workgroups. But in order to get report info I need the workspace id.

 

So what I need to do is create a table using some sort of nested loop. 

 

Do

    Get groups using the get-groups api call

 

     save the groupid from that call in a parameter parmGroupID

 

     get report information from that group by using the get-reports in group api call which has the parameter i just retrieved from         the previous call:

   "https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/groups/"&parmGroupID&"/reports" 

 

Loop - then go back up and get the next group

 

but I am not sure how to do it. I think parsing JSON may be involved, but I don't know how and I can't find any examples online.

 

Please help.

 

Thanks!

 

Sorry if my pseudocode above is confusing.

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It's not just the "hard"  way. It's also the "impossible in the service"  way.  Tell your boss to stop torturing you.

 

To make it clear:  You MUST use a custom connector. Either the ready made one, or your own.

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lbendlin
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I already know about that one, thanks. My boss wants me to do it both ways - using the custom connector AND the hard way. Just in case management won't let us use the custom connector.

 

I appreciate the qucik response. 

It's not just the "hard"  way. It's also the "impossible in the service"  way.  Tell your boss to stop torturing you.

 

To make it clear:  You MUST use a custom connector. Either the ready made one, or your own.

Thanks!

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