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Contextually autofill an entry field from PowerBI? I'm seemingly unable to pull any data from PowerBIIntegration.

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Hello. My end goal is to click on some data in PowerBI, and have it auto-fill a couple fields in the entry form in my PowerApp. However, I cannot seem to get any sort of connection to my data via PowerBIIntegration.

 

Here's the steps I've taken:

 

  1. Create an Excel File on OneDrive with an empty table, with the following headers:
    • SKU
    • Marketplace
    • Action
    • Date
  2. Create an app in PowerApps, linking to my excel file in OneDrive.
  3. Save and publish the app.
  4. In PowerBI, I add a PowerApps visualization, and select my two datapoints; "SKU" and "Market"
  5. Click "Choose App", and select my app.
  6. Click "Go to Power Studios" to finalize the data connection and get PowerBIIntegration added.
  7. Alt-Click the "+" in my app, to go to the entry page.
  8. Click the Marketplace text field, and edit the default value.
    • I'm prompted to unlock the field, so I do so
  9. From other forum posts, I believe I'm supposed to enter a formula like this:
First([@PowerBIIntegration].Data).Market

 But doing so has the red error squiggly under ".Market" saying "Name isn't Valid. This identifier isn't recognized."

 

I assume that it's unable to lookup any contextual data within the PowerApps creator, so I save and publish with the hopes that my formula works in the embedded version of the app in PowerBI.

 

However, when I refresh PowerBI, load the PowerApp, click the "+", and then click on a marketplace on a separate visual in PowerBI, nothing pops up in the entry form.

 

What am I missing or doing wrong?

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Funk-E-Guy ,

     

    Is that because your header name is "Marketplace" instead of "Market"? Please check.

  • Funk-E-Guy Profile Picture
    13 on at

    Hi @Anonymous,

     

    In my Excel document, the header is "Marketplace", but in my PowerBI model the field that I want to autofill is "Market". So I was using "Market" for the PowerBIIntegration formula. Is that incorrect?

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    Funk-E-Guy Profile Picture
    13 on at

    I solved the issue, but not in the way I had hoped.

     

    Apparently if I try to inject my PowerBI model into an existing PowerApp, it only seems to be like half-linked to that app. Like, I can see the PowerBIIntegration node in the components pane, I can even write the formulas, but I can't actually get it to do anything.

     

    Instead what I had to do was create a new PowerApp when prompted in PowerBI. So, add a PowerApp visual, pull in the fields I want shown in the app, then click Create New. This means that I have to create the app manually instead of using one of the template apps, which is unfortunate, but better than nothing.

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