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Tamela Mckane
I am stumped and need help. I have created a report in desktop based on dataflow in service. The dataflow is scheduled to refresh daily. I publish the desktop report in the workspace and from there create an App for users to view the report.
I think what you might be looking for is using a Power BI Gateway. This will create a connection to your local data stores. In order to display a power bi report inside an mvc application you would still need to create the pbix and upload it to the power bi service. Using the gateway will allow direct queries to your local data, and not force you to store your data in the cloud.
You can use the Microsoft Power BI template to import data into Power BI from Project for the web and Project Online. When you're using the template, you're connected to your Microsoft Dataverse instance, where your Microsoft Project web app data is stored. With the template, you'll be able to download a variety of data to visually explore, monitor, and get reports on key aspects of your Project Portfolio Management (PMM) deployment.
The region value is usually associated with the data center that's geographically closest to you. If you need to change the region value from the one that's already in your Dataverse URL, see the list below.
For this article I am going to walk through how I leveraged Power Automate Desktop to pull specific data from web pages to an Excel Online spreadsheet. This data is then used as part of a Power BI weekly report. Before walking through the build process, I want to caveat by saying this is my first Power Automate Desktop flow and, though this flow works, I am sure there are more efficient ways to build this. I expect comments from you all which I will leverage for future articles.
Since we will be pulling data from defined web pages we will also need to install the Power Automate extension for our though web browser. For reference the Microsoft Power Automate extension is the add on for enabling web automates -automate things like web scripting, data extraction, web testing. The Power Automate extension supports the four most popular browsers: Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. These browsers need additional configuration or/and browser extensions to work.
With the Excel variable established our next steps are to extract specific data from defined web site. In the Actions panel of the Power Automate Desktop Flow Designer look for Web automation. Expand Web automation and then expand Web form filling. Since I use Microsoft Edge I will be dragging/dropping the Launch new Microsoft Edge instance in the workspace.
Next we will direct Power Automate Desktop to extract data from a web page. Within the Actions column click on Web automation>Web data extraction>Extract data from web page. Drag and drop Extract data from web page into the workspace of the flow designer.
Microsoft Excel is one of the most common data sources for Power BI. We can store Excel files in various storage types. The way we get data from Excel varies depending on the storage type. In this post, I quickly show two methods to connect to an Excel file stored in SharePoint Online.
Last week I had a session with one of my customers going through the very same scenario. The customer had to teach his other colleagues how to use Power BI to get data from Excel files stored in SharePoint Online. He thought, going through all the steps explained in the first method is too much, and it might not be easy for his colleagues to absorb it. So we thought to look at our options in SharePoint Online, that he found something interesting. So this method is originally discovered by my customer, Mr Callum Fraser. Follow the steps below to get the file path directly from SharePoint Online:
As always, I would like to know your opinion. Have you used these methods before? Do you know a better way to get the data from Excel files stored in SharePoint Online? Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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Yes it does, these methods are only to get the data from Excel files stored in SharePoint Online.
They do not affect your capability to setup scheduled data refreshes.
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The methods explained here are to get data from files stored on SharePoint Online which will not affect the data refresh.
If you used your credentials when connecting to the SharePoint, then the data refresh uses your credentials. You can always change the credentials from the Dataset settings on Power BI service to switch to a different user account.
I hope that helps.
Thanks for your feedback.
Regarding your question, as always, it depends on your specific scenario.
Replacing the Excel file with a new one (with the same file structure) does not automatically refresh your Power BI dataset.
But if you scheduled an automatic refresh on the dataset, then the data will be read from the new Excel file on the next scheduled refresh.
How to link Power BI to a EXCEL containing proficy Historian data in it.
Also, In excel, I am fetching continuous current data from a server using proficy Historian. This data is to be reflact in POWER BI to amke the dashboard.
What would happen if I share the report to someone from my organization? Will the connection to the sharepoint folder still work? And will the report always have the current data from the excel file in the sharepoint folder?
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Power Automate Desktop is a free application from Microsoft you can download to automate personal or business-related tasks on any Windows computer. One of the most popular use cases for Power Automate Desktop is taking data from an Excel and file and entering it into a form on website. Its absolutely amazing to watch as your computer quickly completes the boring task that used to take you hours. In this step-by-step tutorial I will show you how automate data entry from Excel to a form on a website.
We have now created the insurance claims data in Excel and and the Insurance Claims web form in Microsoft Forms. It is time to build a Power Automate Desktop flow to perform data entry from Excel to a website. Open Power Automate Desktop and create a new flow.
After the insurance claims data is extracted from the Excel spreadsheet we must open a web browser to the insurance claims form. Insert a new Launch new Chrome (or other web browser) step. Choose new instance as the launch mode and supply the initial URL for Microsoft Form we built earlier.
Right now the data entry actions for populating a text field on a web page are using hardcoded values we manually typed in. We want them to use values from the Excel file. To do this we must edit steps 7-10 of our Power Automate Desktop flow.
Press the play button to run the desktop flow. It will read-in data from the Excel file, open the the insurance claim form in Google Chrome, submit a form for each row in the table and then close the web browser.
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