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Data source error: Information is needed in order to combine data;Information about a data source is
Hi, Anonymous
According to your error message, I checked the relevant problem documents, and the reason is due to the privacy level of the data source configuration.
You can follow my steps below to troubleshoot if the issue is caused by inconsistent "Privacy setting" settings:
(1) You can open the corresponding PBI desktop local file first, and go to the option "Option and Settings-Options" to open this option:
(2) Then you go to "Data Source Settings" and make sure that the "Privacy setting" settings of all data sources connected to your dataset are consistent:
(3) After confirming the consistency, you can perform a desktop data refresh to ensure success.
(4) After the refresh is successful, you can republish to and try to reconfigure the data source definition for the data source of the related dataset to ensure that the "Privacy level" configured on the Serive is consistent with that of the Desktop:
If the above methods cannot help you troubleshoot the problem, you can provide your detailed error information so that we can better help you solve the problem.
Best Regards,
Aniya Zhang
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Hi, Anonymous
According to your error message, I checked the relevant problem documents, and the reason is due to the privacy level of the data source configuration.
You can follow my steps below to troubleshoot if the issue is caused by inconsistent "Privacy setting" settings:
(1) You can open the corresponding PBI desktop local file first, and go to the option "Option and Settings-Options" to open this option:
(2) Then you go to "Data Source Settings" and make sure that the "Privacy setting" settings of all data sources connected to your dataset are consistent:
(3) After confirming the consistency, you can perform a desktop data refresh to ensure success.
(4) After the refresh is successful, you can republish to and try to reconfigure the data source definition for the data source of the related dataset to ensure that the "Privacy level" configured on the Serive is consistent with that of the Desktop:
If the above methods cannot help you troubleshoot the problem, you can provide your detailed error information so that we can better help you solve the problem.
Best Regards,
Aniya Zhang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly
Thank you so so much for the detailed explanation and solution. I have been struggling for a couple of days trying different privacy settings, resetting credentials & privacy options on Desktop and Service. Finally with your post, figured it out that we need to update on the Connections also under "Manage Connections and gateways".