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jsmithers
7 years agoNew Member
PowerBI report server publishing
Hi, What is the guidence for using expressions/variables for the connection strings to data sources. We have two challenges to overvcome to make sure the publishing of models works. 1) Data s...
luisrh
7 years agoResponsive Resident
The way to do this is to ensure your datasources are embedded data sources - after that you can create your connectionstring thru an expression. One common way is to pass info necessary for it thru hidden parameters -
From a security standpoint I would ensure those params are hashed and your functions in the SSRS side manage unmangling the passed parameters used for connectionstring building.