Connection String for Embedded report which uses DirectQuery
I have a PBIX which uses a Direct Query to a SQL Azure database. I have followed the steps in https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/power-bi-embedded-get-started-sample to create a...
View ArticleRe: PowerBI Embedded Sample Connection string
Did you manage to resolve this? I am struggling to get a format for the connection sring that works to a SQL DB in Azure.
View ArticleRe: Realtime, or near realtime, server telemetry dashboards
I now have data pushing into PowerBI, however I still need to figure out how to manipulate the data. The utilization stats are all in 0.0####### format. I need to figure out how to create a cpu...
View ArticleRe: Realtime, or near realtime, server telemetry dashboards
SELECT flat.arrayvalue.categoryName as categoryName, flat.arrayvalue.instanceName as instanceName, e.context.location.continent as continent, e.context.location.country as country,...
View ArticleCustom Visual build artifacts from Visual Studio
I'm trying to build a pbiviz from a custom visual I've built in Visual Studio. Currently the build process creates one massive CustomVisuals.js where my custom visual's class resides. What I need is...
View ArticleRe: PowerBI Embedded Sample Connection string
I have had the same issue though just fixing User Id and password was enough for my case. You may want to just switch database pointing in local PowerBI Desktop and just update the credentials from...
View ArticleRe: Power BI Embedded connecting to Azure SQL Database with Authenticated user
We intend to do row level securiity via sql views which will test the current user. The issue is that in the dataset credentials in the power bi file we do not see an option to indicate currrent user...
View ArticleRe: Power BI Embedded and Azure Active Directory Authentication
We need the credential of the current authenticated user to be able to flow through so it can be passed to the credentials for the dataset level access. e.g. connection to the azure sql database....
View ArticleRe: Custom Visuals Sandbox is coming - Here's what you need to know
Hi It seems that custom visuals that are NOT in the official gallery don't show in iPhone dashboards. Can you confirm it?For example, if I pin Card With States By SQLBI to the dashboard it works, but...
View ArticleRe: Some embedded tiles doesn't load, others load fine
Yeah, I can confirm. I've been beating my head against a wall with this. I've been trying to embed tiles into a UWP app and it's been working perfectly for the single sample tile I can find on the...
View ArticleReplace Data Source
Hi. I have built visualizations in power bi using excel files as source. Now i have to connect that to Azure SQL datawarehouse, but my visualizations should be intact. It means just replace excel file...
View ArticleRe: Links in Custom Visuals for Microsoft Showcase (URGENT)
The custom visuals framework development team introduced a temporary flag for disabling the sandboxing.You can read more about it...
View ArticleRe: Some embedded tiles doesn't load, others load fine
It is good to know that this bug doesn't occur only for me. It would be great to hear something about its fixing. If it is really generic as it looks, then it makes this feature of Power BI only a...
View ArticleRe: Custom Visuals Sandbox is coming - Here's what you need to know
I'd also like to throw in that i'm experiencing similar issues on iOS devices since sandboxing went live. In my report I have a few "Card with State" visuals on the initially active page which fail to...
View ArticleRe: Custom Visuals Sandbox is coming - Here's what you need to know
Hi guys, I have noticed that my custom visualzation is working very slow and sometimes doesn't render completely. I have created custom viz using d3 and it used to work fine. Issues observed with it...
View ArticleLogin to personal gateway with different users
Hi,When I install the personal gateway it's automatically sign in to my personal power bi account,I want to connect the personal gateway with different user and I don’t know how to sign out and change...
View ArticleRedmonder Package for R: A fork of RColorBrewer for Microsoft users
Hello, For those of you using R -- in particular those who plan to integrate R visuals in Power BI -- you know how frustrating it can be to set the right colour combination to your R plots. Redmonder...
View ArticlePBIe REST API - POST data
We made PBI embedded REST AP tech trial. GETs seem to work well but when we tried to add one row to PBIe data table by "POST data" we got "unauth" error. "POST data" seems to be available in PBIe REST...
View ArticleRe: Replace Data Source
That seems to be a common scenario, I am about to face a similar case with shifting from one database to the other (one staging environment to another staging environment, then eventually production)....
View ArticleRe: Power BI Embedded and Azure Active Directory Authentication
It sounds like a totally different scenario, and not really related to authentication. As far as I know user context is not available at all. Especially not in PBI Embedded, where the user is not...
View Article