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Anonymous
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Bind to Gateway for .rdl datasource using API

I know about the PowerBI API call to bind a dataset to a On-Premise gateway but I need to do the same for a datasource in an .rdl report - is there an API call for this?

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kavyab
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After importing rdl files gateway connection will be lost and need to update manually always. Is there any solution to this? 

lbendlin
Super User
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You don't bind gateway connections to reports (paginated or not) or datasets, you bind them to data sources.

Anonymous
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Well, yes and no, the API call for .pbix is a dataset call to bind to a gateway in a group and then there is an auto-detect on the connect string to bind a particular datasource. The question is really is there an API to do the same for .rdl.

did you find any solution 

Any solutions to this?

bradsy
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

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