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ucilengi
New Member
9 years ago

get data from atom file

In powerpivot, it is possible to get data using atom file (.atomsvc) by simply connectiong to the file. In the power bi desktop tool the only option is connection via odata. however, this does not wo...
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Farwest
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Hi All,

 

I am reviving this discussion from 2016 as I do have the same problem, is there a way to read an .atomsvc file from power Bi desktop. PowerPivot does it but when importing the data model into PowerBI, it only extract the data contained in the atom file and not the feed data.

 

Thanks

 

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
8 years ago

 For anyone else stumbling across this, if you view the raw xml you'll see the web connection Power BI can use. It will be of the form :

 

https://server/reportservername?/reportfolder/reportname

 

It will then likely include a lof parameters you can remove, and end with:

 

&rs:Format=ATOM

 

Change this to:

 

&rs:Format=CSV

 

To finally yield:

 

http://server/reportservername?/reportfolder/reportname&rs:Format=CSV

 

Head to Power BI and make a new web connection using the string above and you should be all set.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    7 years ago

    Hello,

     

    This method doesn't work for for me. I saved report created in CRM365 as Data Feed (ATOMSVC file) and I've tried to get data as Web to Power BI and it doesn't work because the URL have wrong hostname :

    Details: "The remote name could not be resolved: 'amscrmp629agl01.phx.gbl'"

     

    Could you support me with information how to get data from CRM365 report directly to Power BI ?

     

    Best Regards,

    Lukasz

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      Can you ping this hostname from the same machine you are trying to create the BI report from? In most of the cases, the machine is unable to resolve the hostname. If you know the ipaddress of the machine, you could replace this with the IP Address and try again

    • adaml's avatar
      adaml
      Regular Visitor
      7 years ago

      I'm trying to do the same thing but just wanting to open the atomsvc in Excel. 

      I'm guessing the the ...phx.gbl address is the address of the report server in the Microsoft cloud that is running the report. Clearly this is not publically accessible - does anyone know if atomsvc files can be used to return Dynamics 365 CRM report contents?