Excel source as a Power BI Service source

[Anonymous]

Hi, 
I need to build a report into Power BI Service. 

The source data comes from a Teams folder (SharePoint). It is a singe Microsoft Excel file that contains one table. 

I do not want to depend on a Gateway installed onto my own machine, I want to run it independently. 

Somehow I cannot make it work. 

What I have tried so far: 

1. Using a common drive access but the datasource breaks down when the pbix is published into Service. 

2. Using a Teams folder for the file location still causes errors for the refresh in Service (either missing or invalid credentials).

3. Using the Excel as a dataset input inside Service (New --> Dataset) allwos to use it as a source but as connection type is Live then I cannot do any proper transformations. 

Something tells me this cannot be that complicated. Any advice out there?

[Anonymous]

Great, thanks. This worked. 

[blopez11 · Accepted solution]

You do not need to use a gateway since it is a cloud source.  In the service, remove any gateway setup under the "Gateway connections" section and in the "Data source credentials" section, edit the credentials (use OAuth2 as the authentication method).

[blopez11]

It is really easy.

Please see the below.  It says OneDrive for business, but it works perfectly for files on Teams.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-use-onedrive-business-links

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

Tried that. Works on Desktop but the Service side gives this error: 

Any ideas what might be wrong?

Thanks, 
Martin