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dimazaid
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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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kaushal
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9 years ago

Does this mean if I have used URL as a datasource, then in powerBI service, I cannot use schedule refresh to connect directly and I need to have a gateway which will be used to load data from the URL?

  • kaushal's avatar
    kaushal
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    9 years ago

    But I am still able to refresh some of the new datasets without gateway where I have used Web as datasource.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      9 years ago

      I have case with using url https://onedrive.live.com/download. In PowerBI Desktop it works, on PowerBI Service it does not (it gives me no credentials message). Onedrive is personal version, and link is for anonymous connect.

      • faisalmo's avatar
        faisalmo
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        9 years ago

        As far as I know, this only affects any "screen scraping" you are doing; so if your queries contain "Web.Page", then you will need to follow the advice here. We have plenty of data sources that are accessed via http / web and that's not going to be affected. E.d. OData.Feed, Web.Contents, etc. will all be unaffected.

  • dimazaid's avatar
    dimazaid
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    9 years ago

    hi TBenders,
    We applogize for the confusion, the documention should be updated in the next few days.