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6 years ago

Please specify how to connect.

So I needed to make some changes in the advanced editor of a dataflow entity. I do this every month-end and never had problems, this month at the part where I get the error; "Please specify how to co...
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6 years ago

Anonymous 

Which datasource you needed to edit or add? I can reproduce the error, but reason is unknown I will keep consult the issue internally. You may take a look at the solution in this post: (SAP HANA)

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Dataflow-to-SAP-HANA-unable-to-connect-quot-Please-specify-how/td-p/605948

 

I would recommned you scorll down to create a support tickethttps://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/support/  for a quick reponse from Power BI team.

 

Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
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    6 years ago

    Thank you for the response, I will check it out. 

     

    Just to let you know, it seems the problem was with the data source. The structure changed and I did not notice and it seems the error was misleading since it had no problem signing in and excepting the changes when the queries were fixed. Just not sure why it did not give errors in relation to the problem?