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Read more: How to find the owner/creator of a Power BI report
Often, when accessing a report published on the Power BI service, we find ourselves in need of contacting its responsible party to ask questions or report issues. In this article, we will explore several methods to obtain this information, which may not always be straightforward, especially when dealing with reports embedded with URLs. Table of…
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Read more: FIX: Sharepoint images not displaying for some users in Power BI Service
A common requirement for report developers is the integration of images within dashboards. However, when using image links, these URLs must be accessible to the Power BI service. Many analysts naturally opt to host these images on a SharePoint site. However, SharePoint sites in most organizations are not public; they require authentication to access their…
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Read more: How to embed a Power BI report in SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online offers a native Web Part for embedding Power BI reports. By using this feature, all access permissions and Row-Level Security (RLS) settings of the report are respected. Table of contents Getting the report URL The first step to embedding is to obtain the URL of your report. While navigating through it, click on…
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Read more: How to embedding Base64 images in Power BI
One challenge that report developers may encounter in certain scenarios is securing a public location to display their images. In corporate environments, hosting images on public websites is often not feasible, and solutions like storing them on private sites such as SharePoint, which require authentication, don’t integrate seamlessly with Power BI, as explained in the…
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Read more: Fix: cross-report drillthrough option not appearing for some users
The scenario is as follows: you have two reports with the cross-report drillthrough option enabled in the Power BI service. This feature works perfectly for you and some users as they navigate through the published report. However, for other users, when they right-click on a visual, the drillthrough option does not appear in the context…
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Read more: Fix Power BI refresh error: “Could not load file or assembly … or one of its dependencies. Either a required impersonation level was not provided, or the provided impersonation level is invalid”
Are you trying to update your Power BI report, both in the Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service, and encountering an error similar to the message below: The solution to this issue depends on the environment where the refresh is being performed (Power BI desktop or Power BI service) and the type of…
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Read more: Fix error: “SAP Business Warehouse: Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture”
When attempting to connect SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) in your Power BI desktop, you encounter the following error message: SAP Business Warehouse: Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure “Microsoft.Mashup.SapBwProvider.Resources.resources” was correctly embedded or linked into assembly “Microsoft.Mashup.SapBwProvider” at compile time. In this article, we…
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Read more: How to fix: “You need to use SSL (HTTPS) when you use OAuth 2.0 authentication”
You’ve put together your Power BI report, and everything is running smoothly with data updates in Power BI Desktop. However, when you publish the report to your workspace in the Power BI service and try editing the credentials for a data source using OAuth2 authentication, you encounter the “You need to use SSL (HTTPS) when…
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Read more: Power BI: how to fix the error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”
Have you ever come across the error message “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” when connecting to a data source in Power BI. This article explains how to fix this error. Table of context Why does this error happen? This error message is very generic and indicates that Power BI tried…