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Anonymous
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9 years ago
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salesforce connectivity - 2000 lines restriction

Hi,   Is there any solution to ensure ALL the rows in salesforce appear in power BI? Currently the restriction is 2000 rows.   I understand from earlier responses and searches that this is a Sale...
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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Anonymous,

    Based on Miguel’s response in this idea, the 2000 row limit is from  Salesforce Report API but not from Power BI. You can share this feedback with Salesforce as this is fully in their control.

    As a workaround for the above issue, you can use Salesforce Object connector in Power BI Desktop to pull all the rows from individual tables and recreate reports you’d like. The Object connector doesn’t have the 2000 row limit.

    Regards,

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

Anonymous,

Based on Miguel’s response in this idea, the 2000 row limit is from  Salesforce Report API but not from Power BI. You can share this feedback with Salesforce as this is fully in their control.

As a workaround for the above issue, you can use Salesforce Object connector in Power BI Desktop to pull all the rows from individual tables and recreate reports you’d like. The Object connector doesn’t have the 2000 row limit.

Regards,

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metrica
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3 months ago

Hi everyone,

 

The 2,000-row cap is still there. It comes from the Salesforce Reports API and Salesforce hasn't lifted it. The standard workaround - switching to the Object connector - does bypass the cap, but introduces two new problems that several people in this thread ran into and never got an answer for:

 

  • you lose all the report-level logic you'd already built in Salesforce (filters, groupings, joined reports) and have to rebuild it from raw tables in Power Query
  • the Object connector doesn't fold filters into SOQL, so on anything above ~100k rows it pulls the whole object into memory before filtering - which is why catcollector and manuelaschuster were seeing churn for hours

A third option worth knowing about is Power BI Connector for Salesforce on AppExchange. It sits between the two native paths: pulls Salesforce Reports as-is without the 2,000-row cap, and for Objects does server-side filtering - so you trim millions of rows down to what you need before they reach Power BI, instead of after.

 

30-day free trial, no card. Docs at https://metricasoftware.com/, and we're happy to walk through a quick demo on your own reports if useful - just reach out.

 

Cheers,

Metrica Team.