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rjm900
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

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...
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JuandreR
Advocate I
9 years ago
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
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erikskov
Advocate II
9 years ago

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

  • SASH117's avatar
    SASH117
    New Member
    9 years ago

    Hi

     

    I copied it into the BIN folder, still I get the message "This connector requires one or more additional components"

     

    Any idea?

     

    i am using: Version: 2.48.4792.721 64-bit (July 2017)

  • bluefordredschw's avatar
    bluefordredschw
    New Member
    9 years ago

    I'm not able to download your zip file. Is there a problem with it? I can see it but when I click download nothing happens.

     

    I do have other access to these files but I'm just not sure which ones I need as they are not labled well. I tried adding sap.connector.dll and sap.connector.rfc.dll to the BIN folder but I'm obviously missing something.

     

    Thanks!

    • bluefordredschw's avatar
      bluefordredschw
      New Member
      9 years ago

      I just dumped 1,000+ files into the BIN folder to see if I could get it to work. Viola! PowerBI connected to BW.