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MbProg
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9 years ago

Real time dashboards

I have some dashboards that show the statitic data of some customers, their invoices... We can use Power BI REST API to push data to Power BI Service and show it in dashboards. It works great if you...
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CahabaData
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9 years ago

I'm misunderstanding the terminology/definition:

 

Direct Query requires a Gateway and is involved with On Premise data sources

 

While I thought that 'Live Connection' was for PBI Service to a cloud data source that did not involve any Gateway....

 

wrong? 

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

CahabaData I don't think there is definitive documentation out there. I wrote a blog on my understanding based on working with the tool and documentation here which should shed some light on a bit of nomenclature.

It doesn't address cloud specific. So I guess I would say that cloud sources still abide by the same 3 connection types, and that if you are using an API you are just importing data - and as a result of it being a cloud source, it doesn't require a gateway to refresh.

There is a 4th type I suppose, and that would be "live streaming" data from stream analytics or using the live stream tiles.

I believe your case falls into "Import with cloud data source".

My 2 cents.

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    CahabaData
    Memorable Member
    9 years ago

    ah thanks both for clarification ....