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PowerBI Gateway and General Dataset Refreshing Issues
Hi everyone, I created a PowerBI report on PowerBI Desktop and uploaded it to PowerBI Service. The datasource for the pbi file is an excel that is located on Sharepoint. The excel gets automatic...
Mariusz I was looking at the dataset settings on PowerBI Service and noticed this:
Does this mean I don't need a gateway in order to refresh the dataset?
Hi rjsidek
If you use SharePoint Online then no, all you need to do is add your Credentials
You only need Gateway if you connecting to data sources on-prem.
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Mariusz
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Ah i see! thanks for that. I found that the problem was my data source from powerbi desktop. It seems that it had 2 data sources, one from sharepoint and one from my laptop. That's why i needed a gateway. I did not realize that the data source from my laptop was till there when I uploaded it to powerbi service.