Power BI Post

Overview

The Power BI Post Snap creates, clones, and rebinds data resources in a Power BI workspace.


Power BI Post Snap overview

Snap views

Type Description Examples of upstream and downstream Snaps
Input

This Snap has exactly one document input view.

A document containing the data to post into the workspace.
Output

This Snap has at most one document output view.

A document containing success/failure confirmation along with the newly-posted data's details.
Learn more about Error handling.

Snap settings

Note: Learn about the common controls in the Snap settings dialog.
Field/Field set Description

Label

String 		Specify a unique name for the Snap. Modify this to be more appropriate, especially if there are more than one of the same Snap in the pipeline.

Default value: Power BI Post

Example: Create Sales Dashboard

Workspace

String 		Required. Enter the workspace in which to post the resource. Alternatively, click the Suggestion icon to fetch a list of workspaces associated with the Power BI account and select the workspace.

Default value: My Workspace

Example: Employee Records

Entity type

String 		Required. Select the entity type to post.

Available options are:

  • Dashboard: Single-page canvas for visualizations based on reports. The visualization units are called tiles.
  • Report: Visualized interpretations, findings, and insights of a dataset. A report can include many pages.
  • Dataset: Collection of tables from different data sources ready for reporting and visualizations.
  • Gateway: Connections between Power BI's cloud-based analysis service and on-premise data sources.
  • Dataflow: Collection of entities (tables) that you create and manage in workspaces.
  • Dataflow Storage Accounts: Stores data flows in the organization's Azure Data Lake Storage account and connects them to Power BI.

Default value: Dashboard

Example: Report

Entity operation

String 		Select the post-operation to perform. The available options vary upon your configuration of the Entity type field. Alternatively, you can also enter the operation's name manually.

Available options are:

  • Dashboard
    • Add Dashboard
    • Clone Tile
  • Dataset
    • Bind to Gateway
  • Report
    • Clone Report
  • Gateway
    • Add Datasource User

Default value: N/A

Example: Add Dashboard
Connection details Use this field set to configure the network connection parameters.

This field set contains the following fields:

  • Connection timeout
  • Number of retries
  • Retry interval (seconds)

Connection timeout

Integer 		Required. Specify the connection timeout duration in seconds.

Default value: 0

Example: 30

Number of retries

Integer 		Required. Specify the maximum number of re-connections if the connection fails or is timed-out.

Default value: 10

Example: 4

Retry interval (seconds)

Integer 		Required. Specify the interval in seconds between reconnections.

Default value: 10

Example: 30

Snap execution

Dropdown list
Choose one of the three modes in which the Snap executes. Available options are:
  • Validate & Execute: Performs limited execution of the Snap and generates a data preview during pipeline validation. Subsequently, performs full execution of the Snap (unlimited records) during pipeline runtime.
  • Execute only: Performs full execution of the Snap during pipeline execution without generating preview data.
  • Disabled: Disables the Snap and all Snaps that are downstream from it.

Default value: Execute only

Troubleshooting

Error Cause Resolution
HTTP Response Exception:400 Invalid OAuth endpoint/token URL. Verify the values of the OAuth2 endpoint or token URLs in the account settings.
HTTP Response Exception:401 Invalid refresh token or access token. Verify the values of the refresh or access tokens in the account settings.