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Chris-F
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Paginated Reports Geospatial Data Issue in Service?

Hi

 

I am trying to transfer over an SSRS report into a paginated report to run on the Power BI Service. I have migrated a bunch of SSRS reports to Paginated, but the one I am stuck on uses a map. It has an SQL datasource, which has a geography field that looks like "0XE610000000010C51DD............". The report runs on our SSRS server, as well as our Power BI Report Server, but when I upload it to the Power BI Service, I get a lengthy "Null Key" error, but none of the keys are null. I have tried taking out the map, and just putting an expression to pull the first "Geography" field, and it still gives me the same error. As soon as I get rid of the geography field in the report, it works again. Would anyone have any insights into this?

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WheresWally
Helper III
Helper III

It's because PowerBI gateways don't support complex data types of which geo is one. There's no published solution except to use a map visualisation in a regular powerbi report with lats and longs instead of geo data. OR use an azure database which doesn't require a gateway. 

 

See here:  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/report-paginated-data-retrieval#sql-server-compl...

bradsy
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

No insights, but this might be a good one to file an issue for. Migration from on-prem to service we are trying to make as seamless as possible for all the supported features.

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