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SAP BW Connector
Hi everyone, Hoping you can help here. I'm trying to get a connection through to SAP BW from PowerBI using the in-built conector. I've succesfully managed to do this previously, using an older ve...
Here is a link detailing the download & extraction process of the SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK. https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/ABAPConn/Download+and+Installation+of+NW+RFC+SDK. One thing to note is that you should not be copying the extracted files to the USR/SAP/ folder as you need the files to be copied into the "BIN" folder in your PowerBI Installation folder. I have also uploaded a compressed version of the required files so that you don't need to use the SAPCAR extraction utility, you can just download the ZIP file from the following link, extract it using any standard ZIP utility, and copy the files into the BIN folder of Power BI. https://files.fm/u/6c7c9mq3
Quick clarification, copy the entire folder (\nwrfcsdk) into the directory and it will work. For example: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Desktop\bin\nwrfcsdk
I also updated the environment path to point the LIB folder under this location : C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Desktop\bin\nwrfcsdk\lib
Updated link to NWRFCSDK archive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aus5ZoRlQqXmr2iKCG98pLrQuUD4