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dimazaid's avatar
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'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.

      • jeppesal's avatar
        jeppesal
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        9 years ago

        What about Excel files on OneDrive "Excel.Workbook(Web.Contents)"?

         

        I have an open support ticket on a project with this type of connection and the supporter keeps insisting that it is a Gateway related error although the solution only contains online sources.

         

        Frustration!!

        You are making it very hard for us to sell and implement Power BI when it is this unstable and your Gateway fix is unacceptable. You need to stabilize this product, bridge the gaps and make it Enterprise ready. The IT departments don’t like Gateways and it doesn’t make sense to add a gateway for an online source!


        You had a god thing going, but the last month or so with extremely unstable service has damaged Power BI and this “feature cut” has only made it worse. Please consider that we have solutions running in production.