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cnschulz
Helper IV
7 years ago

Gateway needed for web data ?

Hi,    I have created a simple test report that gets data from a publicly available website. It simply gets the current weather from a provider and shows a graph over time.    When the report is ...
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cnschulz
Helper IV
7 years ago

Thanks for your quick reply.

I am using the "out of the box" web data source. When I add my URL the following code is added as a source.

= Web.Page(Web.Contents("http://www.bom.gov.au/tas/observations/tasall.shtml"))

 

If I remove the "Web.Page()" and leave the Web.Contents, I am shown an icon of the website and my only option is to click to expands the data, which regenerates the Web.Page() wrapper.

 

When I attempt to set up refresh on the generated dataset, i am prompted to use a gateway. :(

 

Any ideas?

 

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GilbertQ
Super User
7 years ago
Not off the top of my head, but I am sure that there is a way to get this done.
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    cnschulz
    Helper IV
    7 years ago

    Anyone? I must be missing something basic here.

    GilbertQ wrote:
    Not off the top of my head, but I am sure that there is a way to get this done.