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MissMintox
Helper I
8 years ago
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Web Anonymous refresh failure in Power bi Service

I'm trying to access data from ApplicationInsights as an "anonymous" (using web connector in power bi desktop) and the refresh works fine in Power bi desktop. However, when I'm trying to sign in to s...
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  • MissMintox's avatar
    MissMintox
    8 years ago

    Hi all,

     

    Thanks for your responses.

     

    I was able to solve this using a simple alternative method by changing "anonymous connection" to "basic" and passing API key as the username on both desktop and service

     

     

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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Hi MissMintox,

 

I 'd like to suggest you share file with source path, then use power bi excel connector to get data from that link.

I think this way can work through your scenario.

 

Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng

MissMintox's avatar
MissMintox
Helper I
8 years ago

Hi all,

 

Thanks for your responses.

 

I was able to solve this using a simple alternative method by changing "anonymous connection" to "basic" and passing API key as the username on both desktop and service

 

 

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    Srdataguy
    New Member
    2 years ago

    Hi,what dou you mean by passing API key? Ive also loaded data from some public website as anonymus and having same issue. Can you elaborate what to do please?