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dimazaid
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Updates to the Web connector

We are currently working on improving the refresh of cloud based data sources. As part of this, one of the changes we have made recently is that new datasets that leverage import from Web pages will ...
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mauropasi
Advocate I
9 years ago

I keep reading about this possibility to use the personal gateway to connect to web sources but all I get in my schedule report section is: 



Where am I supposed to choose that option?

Perhaps there are multiple issues with the Web connector and the support team is getting them mixed up.

  • dimazaid's avatar
    dimazaid
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago

    mauropasi what data source are you trying to connect to?

    • mauropasi's avatar
      mauropasi
      Advocate I
      9 years ago

      It's an API call.

      I am using Web.Contents with some authentication in the headers so it is set as anonymous because I didn't find a way to pass a bearer token otherwise.  

    • MWilliams86's avatar
      MWilliams86
      Microsoft Employee
      9 years ago

      So I've come upon this issue as well. Any Web content source I've created to get around the fact that Power BI can't read Sharepoint libraries as Lists are now not accepting my credentials when updating my data. I didn't see a workaround listed here, but do you know of any dimazaid ?

      • dimazaid's avatar
        dimazaid
        Microsoft Employee
        9 years ago

        We had an issue with SharePoint libraries when using oAuth, but that was resolved a while back. Are you still seeing it?