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I have created a dashboard that monitors certain enterprise app sign in details, its built upon json files stored in a sharepoint library. This all seems to work fine using desktop PowerBi, but when I publish it to web version the dataset does not refersh.
I receieve the following error, "We found extra characters at the end of the JSON input." The JSON files are outputs from PowerAutomate and I have ran them through a verifier with no issues.
Wondering if anyone can shed some light on why this works on desktop but not web?
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I managed to fix the issue, the web power bi was using the wrong set of Sharepoint credentials for the data refresh. Once I updated the credetials the refresh worked as expected.
Update: This only appears to fix the issue, the actual issue was that I needed a text filter that filtered out other files in the Sharepoint Root. It was picking up some excel files in another document library which was messing it up.
I managed to fix the issue, the web power bi was using the wrong set of Sharepoint credentials for the data refresh. Once I updated the credetials the refresh worked as expected.
Update: This only appears to fix the issue, the actual issue was that I needed a text filter that filtered out other files in the Sharepoint Root. It was picking up some excel files in another document library which was messing it up.
Hi @swstrath ,
It appears that this could be from a number of potential issues. Here are some other folks that found solutions for this error:
Re: We found extra characters at the end of JSON i... - Page 2 - Microsoft Power BI Community
We found extra characters at the end of JSON input... - Microsoft Power BI Community
Power Query -We found extra characters at the end of JSON input (microsoft.com)
Do any of those have the same issue that you have?
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