PowerBI

This page will walkthrough the setup of PowerBI in K.

Step 1) Enabling PowerBI Admin APIs to be accessible to an AD Group

• Open Power BI portal and navigate to Admin Portal in the top right hand navigation

• Go to Tenant Settings and scroll to Admin API settings

• Set Allow Service Principals to use read-only Power BI admin APIs to Enabled

• Select Specific Security Groups

  • Add an AD group that is appropriate for managing this access. This is typically the Admin group for Power BI. If no appropriate group exists, contact your Azure AD admin to create a new security group.

  • Record this AD group for Step 2

• Set Enhance admin API responses with detailed metadata to Enabled

  • Add the same AD group as the previous API Settings option

• Set Enhance admin APIs responses with DAX and mashup expressions to Enabled

  • Add the same AD group as the previous API Settings option

Step 2) Registering PowerBI App in Azure AD

• Log in to your company’s Azure Portal and open the Azure Active Directory page

• Select App Registration in the side panel and click New registration

• Complete the registration form

  • Name: Enter a name for the integration e.g. KADA Power BI API Integration

  • Supported account types: Select Accounts in this organisation directory only

  • Redirect URL: Add https://www.kada.ai

• Click Register to complete the registration

• Click on the newly created KADA Power BI API Integration App

• Save the Application (client) ID and Directory (tenant) ID for use in a later step

• Click on Endpoints and save the URL for OpenID Connect metadata document for use in a later step

• Select Certificates & secrets in the side panel and click New client secret

• Complete the new secret form and save the Secret ID for use in a later stope

• Select API permissions in the side panel and check that that Microsoft.Graph - User.Read permission has been added

• Return to the Azure Portal and select Group

• Find the AD Group that was created in step 1 and click Members

• Select Add Members and add KADA Power BI API Integration to the group as a Service Principal

Step 3) Add PowerBI as a New Source

• Select Platform Settings in the side bar

• In the pop-out side panel, under Integrations click on Sources

• Click Add Source and select Power_bi

  

• Select Direct Connect and add your Power BI details and click Next

• Fill in the Source Settings and click Save & Next

  • Name: Give the Power BI source a name in K

  • Host: Must be unique. You can use http://app.powerbi.com if you only have 1 instance of Power BI.

  • Timeout: Default is 10, sometimes it may take longer for the API to respond, so we recommend increasing it to 20

  • Add the Host/Mapping details. See this page for more details

• Add Connection Details

  • Tenant ID: Add the Directory (tenant) ID copied from step 2

  • Client ID : Add the Application (client) ID copied from Step 2

  • Client Secret: Add the Secret ID copied from Step 2

• Click Finish Setup

• Save the Landing Directory for use in a later step

Step 4) Create a json file in the landing directory

• Create a json file called mapping.json which is an empty json, and place it in the landing directory

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Step 5) Schedule PowerBI source load

• Select Platform Settings in the side bar

• In the pop-out side panel, under Integrations click on Sources

• Locate your new PowerBI Source and click on the Schedule Settings (clock) icon to set the schedule

Step 6) Manually run an ad hoc load to test PowerbIsetup

• Select Platform Settings in the side bar

• In the pop-out side panel, under Platform Settings click on Batch Manager

• In Source Load click Run

• Select the name of the Source you created in Step 2 and click Run

• After the source is triggered, the screen will change to the Monitor tab where you can see the progress of the job.