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st-mb
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago

Recent changes to Web.Contents behaviour?

Hello,   I've been using Power BI to pull data from a REST API data source (LogMeIn Rescue's HTTP GET method). As of this week, it is no longer working as it originally had, leading me to think som...
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v-frfei-msft
Community Support
7 years ago

Hi st-mb ,

 

Could you please share the screen shot of your error message?

 

 

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st-mb
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago

Hello v-frfei-msft ,

 

There is no error message, it's just that the query is not doing what it did previously. 

 

When working, each Web.Contents step would send report parameters via the API (set the timezone, the delimiter, and the date range). These would respond back as OK:

 

 

Then, the final Web.Contents step would retrieve the report that is properly formatted. However, now it is not, as seen in the below screenshot (pipes as delimiters).

 

The same sequence of steps works in a web browser, so I don't think anything has changed on the side of the REST API provider. This leads me to believe that Power BI is no longer saving the "session" between Web.Contents steps like a web browser does.

 

Thanks.

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    chh97
    New Member
    4 years ago

    I might be too late, but I believe that the issue is with the PowerBI cache, when I clear the Cache before every refresh, I get the expected results.