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karimm
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5 years ago
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Dataflow combining online and on-prem sources

Hi All,   I would like to know whether it is possible to create a dataflow that retrieves data from both online sources like Sharepoint Online and on-premise data.  Asking this as I'm not able to ...
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    karimm
    5 years ago

    lbendlin wrote:

    In your gateway there is a setting "allow refresh of cloud data sources through this gateway".  Enable that and then try again.



    Thank you for the reply.

    I did have that checkbox checked and the problem was still occurring.

     

    New findings:

    I'm using a Premium workspace and i realized today that copying the queries as is from PowerBI Desktop, resulted in some computed entities as some of the "load enabled" queries were referencing each other.

    Then I read the following in the PowerBI documentation about Premium capacity computed entities:

    As a best practice, when doing computations on data joined by on-premises and cloud data, create a new dataflow for each source (one for on-premises and one for cloud) and then create a third dataflow to merge/compute over these two data sources.



    Due to the urgency of resolving things, I have moved all settings tables to an Excel file stored on-premise.

    I'm dealing with other issues now like dataflow not refreshing.

    Once I will resolve that, I will try to take back the settings tables into Sharepoint and try the best practice above.