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Useful Tips

Set-up a web user read-only role limited to read OData feeds:

  • Navigate to Users / Roles & Permissions

  • Click +Add Role at the bottom of the page

  • Provide a name to this role: e.g. Read-Only OData

  • Unselect all permissions except the ones below:

    • Export Form Data (if necessary)

    • Export Case Data (if necessary)

    • PowerBI/Tableau Integration

    • Allow role to access data from all locations

  • Save and assign this role to a user

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Error Message and Plausible root cause

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Example Screenshot

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Steps to Fix the error

Error:
Unable to connect

Plausible root cause:

A checkbox question could be causing an issue in your feed.

You may need to either de-select the checkbox questions option, or add a delimiter option for the erroring property.

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Solution 1

  1. Navigate to the feed that is causing the error on CommCare HQ

  2. Click on Copy & Edit Feed button and uncheck the Expanded Checkbox Questions checkbox

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  3. Then use the edited feed in the integration with Power BI

Solution 2

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Navigate to the OData feed that is causing an error on CommCare HQ

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Click on Copy & Edit Feed button

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Then use the edited feed in the integration with Power BI

Error:

There was an error processing your dataset

Plausible root cause:

If you have a large number of feeds or data, the request may be timing out.

You may need to increase the timeout period for the query.

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Then change the settings as follows in the Implementation box for each feed included in your query:
let
    Source = OData.Feed("https://www.commcarehq.org/a/[domain]/api/v0.5/odata/cases/[uuid]/feed"", null, [Implementation="2.0", Timeout=#duration(0, 0, 90, 0) ])in
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Then click on Done once finished with making the changes.


Source: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-set-command-timeout-option/m-p/920420

Bulk delete Power BI/Tableau Integration Feeds

The bulk delete Power BI/Tableau integration feed gives you the option to bulk delete multiple exports at once. 

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