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danwscott
Frequent Visitor
11 years ago
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Cannot Post from Power BI Desktop

I have already created reports and dashboards with the online Power BI service.  Just today, I downloaded Power BI Desktop, made a quick report, and attempted to post it to my Power BI site.  It asks...
  • andre's avatar
    andre
    11 years ago

    go to http://app.powerbi.com and then after you log in you will see a yellow Get Data box on the lower left hand side.. Click that and then follow the prompts to pick your PBIX file and upload it.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    "Get Data" is found on the power bi site. You can pull your pbix file from there. It will be under "Files", "Local File"

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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
11 years ago

In Power BI Desktop go to File | Sign Out and then try Signing in again

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    danwscott
    Frequent Visitor
    11 years ago

    Greg_Deckler

     

    "Sign Out" is greyed out--reasonably so, because it refused my log in from Power BI Desktop.

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      Greg_Deckler
      Community Champion
      11 years ago

      Very strange, try closing Power BI Desktop, login to Power BI Service, then launch Desktop again, maybe reinstall it, I'm going to look for some way to reset credentials.

       

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        danwscott
        Frequent Visitor
        11 years ago

        Greg_Deckler

         

        I tried everything you suggested, and am still unable to publish.  I also asked a coworker to do so from my machine, and he was also unable to login with his username and password.