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swstrath
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Refresh of Dataset failing when using PowerBi Online

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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swstrath
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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. 

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swstrath
Frequent Visitor

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. 

collinq
Super User
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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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