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Dropbox API v2, gateway credential error
- Anonymous9 years ago
Below is the correct answer using API v1 and OAUTH1 from user Masplin (Mike), not me.
But I tried this and it worked perfectly!
I have successful connected my desktop model to an anonnymous dropbox link and it refreshes absolutely fine on PBI servce. OneDrive is an absolute disaster as a cloud storage system, it works for Power bI but is garbagge for anything else.
The issue I have is where my query is doing a folder query so I need ot try Imke solution
For example I have this file Inputs.xlsx which sits in Dropbox\DataModels\SourceFiles.
firstly create a blank query to set the path to the file
DropboxSourcePath is
let
Source = "https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files/auto/DataModel/SourceFiles/"
in
SourceSecondly go onto dropbox online and into developer section as Imke described ot create an app and get a token. In my case I have tried her folder app so I just got a token for the whole of dropbox.
Token is
let
Source = "?access_token=lkPfa4vOd-AAAAAAAAAAKjmGh93HWPeYFfffdfffdfdggf-CY0LSTVss5JF53HOGK46xxkWsQzhj-"
in
SourceThen your query becomes. Note now web.contents instead of file.contents and if you have any path its "/" not "\"
let
Source = Excel.Workbook(Web.Contents(DropboxSourcePath & "Inputs.xlsx" & Token), null, true),
Seasonality_Table = Source{[Item="Seasonality",Kind="Table"]}[Data],
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Seasonality_Table,{{"Month No", Int64.Type}, {"Month", type text}, {"Car Count Seasonality", type number}, {"GTV Seasonality", type number}})
in
#"Changed Type"So I can refresh all conenctions on desktop and when I publish to PBI Service I see under credential web for each of these dropbox links. Edit conenction and chose annonymous.
I have this same problem, and I am looking for a solution; I also used the function proposed by Imke Feldman and it worked perfectly in Power BI Desktop, however, I can not authenticate the source to schedule automatic updating.
If another function is required to allow authentication, I don't understand where this function should be inserted.
I opened a support ticket 5 months ago, still no solution. Every month they send my issue to another engineer, but no one helped so far. and sincerely, and I think they never will, as dropbox is rival to onedrive... sad.
- hugoventurini8 years agoAdvocate IV
This is driving me crazy.