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bcurko's avatar
bcurko
Icon for Microsoft Employee rankMicrosoft Employee
4 years ago

Connecting DHL API to PowerBI Service for realtime tracking

Hi PowerBi Guru's, 

 

I'm currently building a PBI that receives the tracking information from a Kusto DB but from there I want to connect it to the relevant API to provide an update on where the DHL consignment is. 

 

Have used PBI so I'm using to grabbing the data but I'm not sure how to link the DHL API to PBI so it grabs the current status of the tracking. 

 

Any ideas or suggestions? 

Need Help

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    • bcurko's avatar
      bcurko
      Icon for Microsoft Employee rankMicrosoft Employee
      4 years ago

      It does have some documentation but I think I'm operating in over my head here. 

      The data is imported from an azure Kusto query which has the tracking numbers with the relevant couriers fedex/DHL.

       

      spoke to a friend who told me I'd have to code the api specifically to work with the tracking numbers and this is something I've never touched... 

       

      just trying to workout the simplest approach instead of copying and pasting 50+ tracking numbers manually onto the DHL website if that makes sense 

       

      cheers 

      • lbendlin's avatar
        lbendlin
        Icon for Super User rankSuper User
        4 years ago

        Don't attempt to reinvent the wheel. Use their official API.