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cmncp
Helper III
9 years ago
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Excel Sharepoint Data Refresh - Can't refresh your data

I have an excel file in Sharepoint Online, which has a simple table of data.  Using Power BI Desktop, I can connect to it and create a report.  After I publish the report to Power BI Service, I can s...
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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Hi cmncp,

    Firstly, for excel located in on-premises SharePoint site, we need to use Windows authenticaion. For Excel located in SharePoint Online, we need to use OAuth2 authentication.

    Secondly, to access on-premises data source, gateway is required when refreshing dataset. And both personal gateway and on-premises gateway require Pro.

    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

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cmncp
Helper III
9 years ago

For anyone who has the same problem, this issue was resolved by selecting "Web" rather than "Sharepoint" when adding the new datasource to ther gateway.

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manjirit
Helper I
7 years ago

I have a similar issue.  I have a Power BI file that is using  Excel file on Sharepoint  as data souces. When I refresh the dataset from Power BI desktop, it goes through without any problem but the refresh for the file published on the Power BI service fails with "Edit Credentials" message. 

 

what is happening?