Posts Tagged ‘Custom Connector’

Power BI administration made easy with Power BI REST API custom connector

Today I read the (as always) great article by Matthew Roche “Governing Power BI just got a little easier” and couldn’t find a description on how to get to this promising window with all the admin goodness. So here it comes how to build your Power BI REST API custom connector then 😉 :

Create a custom connector for the Power BI REST API

Miguel Escobar has done a fantastic job to make it super-easy for you here.

Edit 30th September 2019: This repo has just been updated and includes a version with API secret. So if you’ve downloaded that content before and got an authorization error, please get the new files.

Get data from your connector

After you’ve stored the .mez-file in the correct folder (C:\Users\<YourUserNameGoesHere>\Documents\Power BI Desktop\Custom Connectors) and open Power BI Desktop again, you will be greeted with this warning message: Read more

How to get more out of your Graph API custom connector in Power BI

The Graph API can deliver a huge amount of interesting data from your Microsoft 365-universe, but the Graph API custom connector for Power BI is not able to retrieve everything from it in its current shape. So I’ve modified it a bit to squeeze out a bit more of its sweet juice.

Problem

When trying to get the details for planner tasks, the following error-message appears:

Error in Graph API custom connector when retrieving details from planner tasks

Solution

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