Forum Discussion

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
6 years ago
Solved

PowerBI - REST API - Export and then Import in Flow / Power Automate

Hi all,   I've been banging my head against a brick wall for a while here.   I've followed a number of the guides for connecting to PowerBI REST APIs using a custom connector in Flow, and general...
Need Help
  • mwegener's avatar
    mwegener
    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    i found the solution.

    To import a file, request Headers should include Content-Type: multipart/form-data with the file encoded as form data in the request body.

    {
  "$content-type": "multipart/form-data",
  "$multipart": [
    {
      "body": @{body('Export_PBIX')}
    }
  ]
}
mwegener's avatar
mwegener
Most Valuable Professional
6 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

i found the solution.

To import a file, request Headers should include Content-Type: multipart/form-data with the file encoded as form data in the request body.

{
  "$content-type": "multipart/form-data",
  "$multipart": [
    {
      "body": @{body('Export_PBIX')}
    }
  ]
}
Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
5 years ago

Hey mwegener 

 

This looks perfect, thank you. however, my connector is different to yours and isn't working, is there any chance you could share the details of your connector?

 

Thanks!