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Power BI Dataflow Connection Issues with Gateway (On Premise)
Hi all, Since February 12th, I have been experienced this error: Suddenly the dataflows connected to the Gateway miss the conection. So, when I go into the dataflow to edit the query, I started to ...
Apparently this is a known issue, and will be corrected soon. I had the same problem, I needed to edit a query that was preventing the dataflow refresh, but could not save changes as all queries showed a "please specify how to connect" error and would not let me configure the connection. Fortunately after a while I found the same workaround you mention... I was opening a support ticket and saw this message in the support page -> "Power BI customers editing existing dataflows that use the on-premises gateway client may see the message, "Please specify how to connect". Any changes made will not be saved. Engineers have identified the root cause and a fix is expected to be deployed by end-of-day 02/22/2021"