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cdebadri
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PowerBI report filtering when table or column name has underscores in names

Hi,

I'm try to filter a powerbi report from report server with url parameters. My tables and columns have underscore in names like "table_name" and "column_name". When I try to filter the report using url: 
https://server/report?filter=table_name/column_name eq 'Item' 

I even tried by removing the underscores from names but to no effect. I checked the docs but nothing is said about underscore being considered a special character.

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lbendlin
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I even tried by removing the underscores from names but to no effect.

That might point to a spelling mismatch.  You need to use the exact spelling for table and column names.

 

Filter a report using query string parameters in the URL - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

 

Underscore is %5F which needs to be encoded as _x005f_

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