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We're working with an on-premises Power BI Report Server and I have a cached dataset. I want to make this available to Power Pivot users but it is expecting an XML structure. When I enter the URL for the data feed (http://<reportserver>/Reports/api/v2.0/datasets(<ID>)/data), I get this error: Cannot connect to the specified feed. Verify the connection and try again. Reason: Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.
When I put the URL into a browser, I get the data in a JSON format. When I use Power Query, I can see the data. When I use Power BI Desktop, I can see the data. Can someone help explain what I need to do in order to get this data to be made available for Power Pivot? I'm using Excel 2016 in case that's important.
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