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Hi
I am struggling to connect to salesforce reports using get data in Power Bi desktop. After lot of struggle i was able to get it on the online Power Bi. I like the desktop version for building the dashboards, and would need your help to figure why i am not able to connect to salesforce reports using that. Is it cause I have the free download version of Power Bi desktop?
Thanks
Rubina
Solved! Go to Solution.
I want to thank all of you who helped. @zenatti had shared old version archives and that helped me solve my problem.
I went back to Dec 2017 old version. The latest version update of Power Bi does not support salesforce reports. As soon as I moved to an old version of desktop Power Bi, all my problems were resolved. I am thankful to all of you for helping.
Thank you, Lydia.
What error message do you get when using the salesforce report connector in Power BI Desktop?
Regards,
Lydia
I just have power BI free desktop version 2.61.5192.601 64-bit could that be a reason ? Yes I do see the screen shot that you have shared, but thats it. If i try to connect, it will never get connected.
Regards,
Rubina
I want to thank all of you who helped. @zenatti had shared old version archives and that helped me solve my problem.
I went back to Dec 2017 old version. The latest version update of Power Bi does not support salesforce reports. As soon as I moved to an old version of desktop Power Bi, all my problems were resolved. I am thankful to all of you for helping.
Thank you, Lydia.
I was having the same problem (using August 2018 version) and installing the latest version today fixed it for me, which is Version: 2.62.5222.601 64-bit (September 2018)
Hopefully the new version works for you as well so you don't have to revert back to such an old version.
Thank you so much. I figured out Dec 2017 was too old. I then uninstalled and went back to May 2018 version. The version that I had downloaded as on September 10th 2018 was not working for salesforce reports. I noticed that as of september 11, they have a new version.
After so many hours and pain of not being able to figure out why a particular version was not working. I will give it a try. Thank u so much.
Regards,
Rubina
Hi Lydia,
Thank you for your response. When i try to connect I get no messages. it just keeps on and on searching for the salesforce reports.
It goes to navigator, display options shows 3 dots which looks as if it is searching and then nothing shows up on the screen. Though same thing does not happen if I select salesforce objects. I get instant result.
I have few dashboards which are ready to use, created by someone else. I am able to refresh those dashboards. But not able to create or access anything new.
Any idea what is going wrong. Please the entire BI community, need help.
Thanks
Rubina.