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Power BI not saving basic authentication credentials during scheduling
Hi, I can refresh manually on desktop, but when scheduling a refresh on the cloud I keep getting this error: 'WebContents failed to get contents' Checking the 'Data Source Credentials' show...
I think it's worth sharing that I just created a simple app to force updates using the PowerBI API as a workaround to this issue. As a bonus it allows up to 8 updates per day for PowerBI Pro users (and 48 I believe for Enterprise-level subscriptions).
Details on the API and the specific refresh endpoint are here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/refreshdataset
or for datasets in groups:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/refreshdatasetingroup