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Everything you need to know about the On-premise Data Gateway

What’s an On-premise Data Gateway? When to use it? On-premise Data Gateway as the name suggest it’s a Gateway or hub to connect on-premise data sources to Microsoft cloud services like Power BI, Power Apps, etc. You will need to use the Gateway if you are dealing with an on-premise data sources. Cloud data-sources usually

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How to implement Power Automate button to refresh Power BI Dataset and find who clicked it?

In most cases you will want to have scheduled or event-based refresh, but there are some cases where you will want end-users to refresh the Power BI dataset. The main objective of Power Platform is to democratize the data so with Power Automate visuals integration into Power BI makes this becomes possible by giving power

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How to add/ remove the columns linked between Power BI and Power Apps?

In my last blog post “Integrate Powerapps in Power BI report to achieve write-back ability“, we learned how to integrate Power Apps with Power BI by linking columns to achieve write-back functionality. Now say you have linked 2 columns from Power BI to Power Apps visual and then created the App in Power Apps portal.

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Integrate PowerApps in Power BI report to achieve write-back ability

Most of the clients love interactive Power BI reports and all the capabilities it brings for the end-users. But there are situations when the users want to have the write-back ability from the reporting platform. For example, I am using Microsoft’s sample report: Customer Profitability. Say, you are the CFO of the company and you

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How to perform Power BI On-prem Data Gateway management using Service Principal?

Recently I was working on end-to-end implementation of Power BI DevOps that includes Gateway, Workspace and Dataset configuration programmatically using Powershell and Power BI REST API. One of the first steps, I stumbled upon was Gateway configuration and how its linked to data sources and dataset settings. Problems How to map or bind data source

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How to implement Source control and CI/ CD for Power BI?

One of the challenges I was facing recently was about a requirement to implement source control and CI/ CD pipeline with existing Bitbucket and Bamboo architecture without using deployment pipelines for Power BI. I would recommend this approach only if deployment pipelines is out of question for your team. Obviously, we cannot have source control

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Event-based Power BI dataset refresh with email notification

Last year I was working on a requirement, to implement event-based dataset refresh that can send out an email when the refresh has completed successfully or failed. I came across Power Automate as the tool of choice to achieve this task easily and efficiently. Power Automate becoming main stream into Power BI visual does speak

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