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Lou_uk
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Error Message: data source file is missing credentials and cannot be accessed

I have created a report in Power BI desktop for our portfolio reporting. 

 

Then later I created a 2nd report for Third party costs, which uses the semantic model from my portfolio report.  When I published the Third party costs report (to the same workspace as the Portfolio report) I got the following message in the desktop app: 

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When viewing the report in Power BI workspace the page that contains the portfolio infomration has this error

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I asked copilot and it says I should edit the data source credentials but these are greyed out

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I have checked both reports and the permissions are None.. 

 

can you help me please

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Deku
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If the data source is cloud based you can click on Gateway and cloud connections you can click on that in the settings and setup a cloud connection. If the data source is on-prem you will need to install a personal or enterprise data gatway to connect to your data source


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Lou_uk
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Thanks for the quick response..  It looks like you are right, but my organisation's IT is blocking me I have logged a call and hopefully they can help me resolve.

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Deku
Super User
Super User

If the data source is cloud based you can click on Gateway and cloud connections you can click on that in the settings and setup a cloud connection. If the data source is on-prem you will need to install a personal or enterprise data gatway to connect to your data source


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