Rest API credentials issues in power bi service

[walid140891]

Hello Saviors,

We have created a power bi report in power bi desktop and we made the incremental refresh configurations and we, for the first time, published our report to pbi service:

The normal refresh button works fine in PBI Desktop, but The problem is that when trying to set a Scheduled Refresh or connecting our dataset to the a Gateway we face credential issues like shown below:

And when editing the credentials we faced this error:

And when it comes to adding a datasource to the GateWay here's the issue:

We have checked many solutions in the web but none of them was good for us.

Please Help Us!!! 😣

[florianh]

I had the exact same issue. For me it worked to turn on the “skip test connection”. I use the following setting:

[v-msft-pazhen · Accepted solution]

Hi @walid140891 ,

Whether the setting of data source in Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service? Please refer the method in the following links, hope they can help you resolve the problem.

Invalid connection credentials Refresh issue

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Best Regards
Rena
Community Support Team _ Rena Ruan
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[walid140891]

@v-msft-pazhenThank you for your response, the problem was also small, I was trying to connect to the localhost but when I connected to the live API it worked fine.

Thank you again.