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Anonymous
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Gateway Clusters connecting excel file

Hi, 
Im trying to connect excel for gateway. 

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but no luck with that. 
I dont know isuue is full path or windows username.

for user name I tried

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and 

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.Still no luck. Is their any suggessions for that ?

Thank You

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Anonymous
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After the struggling from hours I figured out we can find windowa user name from the command whoami,
username will appear like this format :- abcd/username.

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Anonymous
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After the struggling from hours I figured out we can find windowa user name from the command whoami,
username will appear like this format :- abcd/username.

aj1973
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Hi @Anonymous 

I can see 2 issues, the first is like @StefanoGrimaldi said then you might need to install a personal Gateway in your computer and the second one is that your Excel file is a 32 bit version. there is no 32 bit Gateway.

 

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the path you using with that user have a gateway installed? and wicth type of gateway? for example you should path the file location via a on-primse gateway using the path of the same machin the gateway its, maybe this can help with the issue. 





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Anonymous
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Hi, 
Im using standered gateway for the process. 

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As you can see on the above image, I think gateway for the DB is success. Only remaining is 2 local files.
I couldnt find the issue.
Do I need to add both personal and standered gateway for continue the process ?


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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous,

It seems like your report used multiple types of data sources. For power bi refresh operations, you need to configure all of the data sources that your report used.

If you are working with reports that mixed both on premise and cloudy data source, please turn on the use gateway to handle the cloudy datasource option.

Merge or append on-premises and cloud data sources 

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

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