Leveraging Power BI Parameters for Efficient Data Source Configuration

If you're looking to streamline your data source configuration in Power BI, leveraging parameters might be the solution. This post provides a comprehensive guide on using Power BI parameters effectively for efficient data source configuration.

The post begins by outlining a recent project involving connectivity to an on-premise Business Central instance, and how sandbox service port and Data Gateway configurations facilitated access. Despite successful development phase, deployment resulted in a challenge with source configuration.

The post subsequently delves into tackling the configuration challenge, highlighting the various steps involved in parameterization, including creating a new query, building a new parameter, referencing the parameter in source query, and deploying the new parameterized query. By the end of the post, readers will have gained actionable insights on leveraging Power BI Parameters to streamline data source configuration.

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