We use Kinetic and I would like my reports written so that in excel I can just click refresh or get data and my BAQs are refreshed in my excel file.
Is this possible?
Are there instructions on doing this?
My IT Dept. is not aware of how to do this.
klincecum
(Kevin Lincecum)
June 21, 2023, 8:53pm
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Yes, I’m not sure we have a definitive guide, but we do have some threads on it.
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gpayne
(Greg Payne)
June 21, 2023, 9:24pm
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This thread has a bunch of ways to do that.
I have created an API and set its scope to just the BAQ I want to return. In the REST helper, I can paste the API in the header for REST v2. I get the data back as expected in the REST helper. However, I want to use this data in Excel to make some charts. I have tried a few different ways to pull it in, including power query editor, and the =webservice formula. Nothing has worked so far. I couldn’t get the power query editor to return anything, and the webservice formula always returned #Value.
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ridgea
(Alex Ridge)
June 21, 2023, 9:25pm
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I got a fairly detailed guide on how do… il upload it when I am in the office in the am.
It’s just leveraging the oData feed for the BAQ as the data source.
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kananga
(John K)
June 21, 2023, 9:32pm
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That’s the one I was trying to think of.
Nowadays I’m recommending getting familiar with Power Query. If you’re on SaaS and fetching data over REST, it’s far more powerful at handling data than VBA. It also ports directly to Power BI if you go that direction in the future.
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