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Anonymous
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Data source greyed out / not visible when uploading from PowerBI desktop (Denodo connector)

Hi all,

 

I have a PowerBI offline desktop version for a report which is connected using the Denodo custom connector to a Oracle database. There exists a report server to which I would need to upload these reports for a larger audience.

 

When I upload this report to the Report Server,  when I click on "manage" for the report to view the data source, the data source is greyed out / disabled and there exists no data source configured.

 

In the report server itself, I have also configured a data source for the DB consisting of the correct credentials and tested connection. Please let me know why the data source is greyed out?

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d_gosbell
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It sounds like that specific custom connector may not be currently supported for scheduled refresh in Power BI Report Server. I can't see it listed on the supported data sources list https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/data-sources Can you maybe switch to using the standard Oracle data source?

Anonymous
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Thanks for the reply. However, I did try with ODBC connector as well and still is greyed out.

 

In the document mentioned, ODBC is mentioned as a connector for import and scheduled refresh which is what I am attempting to do as well.


@d_gosbell wrote:

It sounds like that specific custom connector may not be currently supported for scheduled refresh in Power BI Report Server. I can't see it listed on the supported data sources list https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/data-sources Can you maybe switch to using the standard Oracle data source?


 


@Anonymous wrote:

Thanks for the reply. However, I did try with ODBC connector as well and still is greyed out.

 


Can you post a screenshot so that we can see what you are talking about?

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