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5 years ago
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Power BI Service Refresh Fail - SharePoint: Request failed, DataSource.Error; (works from HardDrive)

I'm having difficulty refreshing a data file through the Power BI Service due to a constant failure with pulling data from one particular Excel file stored on my OneDrive; the refresh doesn't work ei...
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    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I've slowly walked through the Power Query steps and identified which step wascausing the problem. The issue stemmed from where I was trying to perform a LEFTJOIN of a merged table from the Excel file with a table from a MySQL database, which was being accessed through an On-Premise Gateway I setup. Originally since I was accessing the Excel file found my hard through that same gateway, that’s probably why there wasn’t an issue before. 

    After some tinkering, I managed to fix the issue after reading this Topic Post; Under Gateway Cluster Settings, select Allow user's cloud data sources to refresh through this gateway cluster > Apply