I have a PowerBI Online dataset, which was created in PowerBI desktop and then published online. So far so good.
I connect to the dataset from Excel via PowerBI pusblish, which work as expected. I'm able to refresh the data in the offline version of Excel, but if I attempt to refresh it in Excel online, I get a generic error.
Is it even possible to refresh Excel online which is connected to PowerBI dataset? If not, any possible workaround?
Thanks for any tip
I'm not sure if this is an exact answer, but I've got a set up here where the O365 online excel document lives in a sharepoint environment. I was able to add the sharepoint site as a source in PowerBI - so whenever the online excel gets updated (because it resides on the sharepoint server), it's able to be fed into Sharepoint.
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I have an Excel file on SharePoint with data from an external data source (SQL Server). I want to setup an Office script to automate the refresh of the data and then trigger it via power automate. However, i am unable to get the data refreshed (even using the manual Refresh All button in Excel Online). It doesn't give any errors in the UI, shows as refreshing, but nothing changes.
I can refresh the data when i open in the Excel desktop app.
Any help on where should i check to get the data refreshed via Excel Online as well would be greatly appreciated?
TIA !
I am completely new Office 365 (and SharePoint) but have been asked to create a site that will display a range of data in the form of graphs and tables etc The data will change daily and therefore it must be possible for members of the team to enter new raw data, for the results to then be displayed through Office 365.
I realise this might sound a little vague but my initial thoughts are that SharePoint is what I should use to display the data and to have a SQL backend database that stores the data for SharePoint to connect to. Having done some reading on the topic and I am still a little unsure if this is common practice or even possible.
Any inital pointers would be greatly appreciated.
This can be done with Power BI. The data sources can by almost anything, SQL, spreadsheets, online sources, you name it. Create queries to get the data, model it (if required) and build reports and dashboards that display in a browser (or on a phone).
I'm trying to run a PowerQuery on a work-related Google Sheet (that I can't share here) so that the data appears in Excel and refreshes when I need it to.
I have published the Google sheet to the web and gotten the link (in web format, not Excel, but this is failing no matter which file format I publish in).
I then go to Data->From Web in Excel and I paste the link to the Google Doc get this:
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As you can see, the data isn't appearing. It should be a table with a bunch of data.
Can someone help me fix this?
When using Google's File / Publish to the web pop-up, change the 2nd setting from "Web page" to "Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)". It then builds a link that works without modification in Power Query.
FYI the best in-depth discussion on this topic is on this thread:
http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Integrations-with-Files-and/How-to-connect-google-sheet-to-Power-BI/m-p/205058#M11276
BTW if you have published your Google sheet to the web, then there shouldn't be any obstacle to sharing it here - it's already visible to anyone.
I did some extensive searching and was unable to find the answer to my question:
Are there alternatives to pulling data using ATOM Data Feeds other than Microsoft Powerpivot? I am trying to set up a connection to MS Access so I can populate some tables using data that currently has to be accessed through an SSRS embedded on a Sharepoint dashboard. I do not have access to the server, so I can't create my own connection at this time. Powerpivot has been the only method that returns data outside of manually going to the Sharepoint. I want the data to automatically populate in MS Access 2010.
I would try the Power Query Add-In - it can connect to SharePoint Lists or OData feeds:
SharePoint:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/excel-help/connect-to-a-sharepoint-list-HA104019822.aspx
OData:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/excel-help/connect-to-an-odata-feed-HA104019824.aspx
One of my customers is very impressed with the capabilities of PowerPivot, particularly the analysis capabilities but even more the publishing capabilities. With that I mean the ability to publish a dashboard to a SharePoint site, after which it can be experienced directly in the browser, including filtering and slicing for end-users.
As we publish our PowerPivot results to a SharePoint site, we get the following error for any action that triggers the data connection to refresh:
The data connection uses Windows Authentication and user credentials
could not be delegated
I've done a lot of research on this one and it seems it is a configuration issue on the SharePoint side. Note though that we are using a cloud hosted SharePoint thus the environment is not under our control. In addition, even our own team mentions this to be a security restriction that will not be lifted.
Therefore, I'm not working on solving the above problem, rather on avoiding it alltogether:
My first experiment was to build a "normal" Excel file without PowerPivot. Same data and I managed to build the same pivots. Both the data and the pivots are in the same file, without a data connection. Publishing it works just fine. The error is not experienced this time, and even interacting with the report via slicers works.
As a second experiment, I wanted to follow the same scenario, but this time using PowerPivot. From data in an Excel sheet I created a so-called "linked table" in PowerPivot. Next, I created some pivots that make use of this table. The pivots are in the same Excel file as the original data. When I publish this file to SharePoint, I get the same error mentioned before when doing anything that refreshed the data connection. Even though the data and pivots are in the same file, it still pops up with this security error, which surprises me.
How can I work around this data connection issue when a PowerPivot is published? We'd like to have both the analytical power of PowerPivot as well as having the rich publishing options of Excel, without running into the data connectivity issue. Is it possible to "flatten" a PowerPivot file to "normal" Excel, since experiment #1 shows that this works fine. How can I remove the data connection from PowerPivot and tell it to just use the Excel data in the very same file?
Do you have PowerPivot for Sharepoint installed?
Is it Pivotstream providing the cloud service?