Power BI assets package¶
The Power BI assets package crawls Microsoft Power BI assets and publishes them to Atlan for discovery.
Will create a new connection
This should only be used to create the workflow the first time. Each time you run this method it will create a new connection and new assets within that connection — which could lead to duplicate assets if you run the workflow this way multiple times with the same settings.
Instead, when you want to re-crawl assets, re-run the existing workflow (see Re-run existing workflow below).
To crawl assets from Microsoft Power BI using the delegated user authentication:
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- The
PowerBICrawler
package will create a workflow to crawl assets from Power BI. - You must provide Atlan client.
- You must provide a name for the connection that the Snowflake assets will exist within.
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You must specify at least one connection admin, either:
- everyone in a role (in this example, all
$admin
users). - a list of groups (names) that will be connection admins.
- a list of users (names) that will be connection admins.
- everyone in a role (in this example, all
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Set up the crawler to extract directly from Power BI.
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When using
delegatedUser()
authentication, you are required to provide the following information:- username for accessing Power BI.
- password for accessing Power BI.
- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI tenant.
- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI client.
- client secret for accessing Power BI.
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When utilizing
servicePrincipal()
authentication, you must provide the following information:- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI tenant.
- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI client.
- client secret for accessing Power BI.
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You can also optionally set whether to directly attach endorsements as certificates (
true
), or instead raise these as requests (false
). - You can also optionally specify the list of workspaces to include in crawling. For Power BI assets, this should be specified as a list of workspaces GUIDs. (If set to null, all workspaces will be crawled.)
- You can also optionally specify the list of workspaces to exclude from crawling. For Power BI assets, this should be specified as a list of workspaces GUIDs. (If set to null, no workspaces will be excluded.)
- Build the minimal package object.
- Now, you can convert the package into a
Workflow
object. -
You can then run the workflow using the
run()
method on the object you've created.Workflows run asynchronously
Remember that workflows run asynchronously. See the packages and workflows introduction for details on how you can check the status and wait until the workflow has been completed.
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- Base configuration for a new Power BI crawler.
- You must provide a name for the connection that the Power BI assets will exist within.
-
You must specify at least one connection admin, either:
- everyone in a role (in this example, all
$admin
users). - a list of groups (names) that will be connection admins.
- a list of users (names) that will be connection admins.
- everyone in a role (in this example, all
-
Set up the crawler to extract directly from Power BI.
-
When using
delegated_user()
authentication, you are required to provide the following information:- username for accessing Power BI.
- password for accessing Power BI.
- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI tenant.
- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI client.
- client secret for accessing Power BI.
-
When utilizing
service_principal()
authentication, you must provide the following information:- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI tenant.
- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI client.
- client secret for accessing Power BI.
-
You can also optionally set whether to directly attach endorsements as certificates (
True
), or instead raise these as requests (False
). - You can also optionally specify the list of workspaces to include in crawling. For Power BI assets, this should be specified as a list of workspaces GUIDs. (If set to None, all workspaces will be crawled.)
- You can also optionally specify the list of workspaces to exclude from crawling. For Power BI assets, this should be specified as a list of workspaces GUIDs. (If set to None, no workspaces will be excluded.)
- Now, you can convert the package into a
Workflow
object. -
Run the workflow by invoking the
run()
method on the workflow client, passing the created object.Workflows run asynchronously
Remember that workflows run asynchronously. See the packages and workflows introduction for details on how you can check the status and wait until the workflow has been completed.
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- The
PowerBICrawler
package will create a workflow to crawl assets from Power BI. - You must provide Atlan client.
- You must provide a name for the connection that the Snowflake assets will exist within.
-
You must specify at least one connection admin, either:
- everyone in a role (in this example, all
$admin
users). - a list of groups (names) that will be connection admins.
- a list of users (names) that will be connection admins.
- everyone in a role (in this example, all
-
Set up the crawler to extract directly from Power BI.
-
When using
delegatedUser()
authentication, you are required to provide the following information:- username for accessing Power BI.
- password for accessing Power BI.
- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI tenant.
- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI client.
- client secret for accessing Power BI.
-
When utilizing
servicePrincipal()
authentication, you must provide the following information:- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI tenant.
- unique ID (GUID) of the Power BI client.
- client secret for accessing Power BI.
-
You can also optionally set whether to directly attach endorsements as certificates (
true
), or instead raise these as requests (false
). - You can also optionally specify the list of workspaces to include in crawling. For Power BI assets, this should be specified as a list of workspaces GUIDs. (If set to null, all workspaces will be crawled.)
- You can also optionally specify the list of workspaces to exclude from crawling. For Power BI assets, this should be specified as a list of workspaces GUIDs. (If set to null, no workspaces will be excluded.)
- Build the minimal package object.
- Now, you can convert the package into a
Workflow
object. -
You can then run the workflow using the
run()
method on the object you've created.Workflows run asynchronously
Remember that workflows run asynchronously. See the packages and workflows introduction for details on how you can check the status and wait until the workflow has been completed.
Create the workflow via UI only
We recommend creating the workflow only via the UI. To rerun an existing workflow, see the steps below.
Re-run existing workflow¶
To re-run an existing workflow for Power BI assets:
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- You can search for existing workflows through the
WorkflowSearchRequest
class. - You can find workflows by their type using the
findByType()
helper method and providing the prefix for one of the packages. In this example, we do so for thePowerBICrawler
. (You can also specify the maximum number of resulting workflows you want to retrieve as results.) -
Once you've found the workflow you want to re-run, you can simply call the
rerun()
helper method on the workflow search result. TheWorkflowRunResponse
is just a subtype ofWorkflowResponse
so has the same helper method to monitor progress of the workflow run.- Optionally, you can use the
rerun(true)
method with idempotency to avoid re-running a workflow that is already in running or in a pending state. This will return details of the already running workflow if found, and by default, it is set tofalse
Workflows run asynchronously
Remember that workflows run asynchronously. See the packages and workflows introduction for details on how you can check the status and wait until the workflow has been completed.
- Optionally, you can use the
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- You can find workflows by their type using the workflow client
find_by_type()
method and providing the prefix for one of the packages. In this example, we do so for thePowerBICrawler
. (You can also specify the maximum number of resulting workflows you want to retrieve as results.) -
Once you've found the workflow you want to re-run, you can simply call the workflow client
rerun()
method.- Optionally, you can use
rerun(idempotent=True)
to avoid re-running a workflow that is already in running or in a pending state. This will return details of the already running workflow if found, and by default, it is set toFalse
.
Workflows run asynchronously
Remember that workflows run asynchronously. See the packages and workflows introduction for details on how you can check the status and wait until the workflow has been completed.
- Optionally, you can use
Re-run existing Power BI workflow | |
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- You can search for existing workflows through the
WorkflowSearchRequest
class. - You can find workflows by their type using the
findByType()
helper method and providing the prefix for one of the packages. In this example, we do so for thePowerBICrawler
. (You can also specify the maximum number of resulting workflows you want to retrieve as results.) -
Once you've found the workflow you want to re-run, you can simply call the
rerun()
helper method on the workflow search result. TheWorkflowRunResponse
is just a subtype ofWorkflowResponse
so has the same helper method to monitor progress of the workflow run.- Optionally, you can use the
rerun(true)
method with idempotency to avoid re-running a workflow that is already in running or in a pending state. This will return details of the already running workflow if found, and by default, it is set tofalse
Workflows run asynchronously
Remember that workflows run asynchronously. See the packages and workflows introduction for details on how you can check the status and wait until the workflow has been completed.
- Optionally, you can use the
Requires multiple steps through the raw REST API
- Find the existing workflow.
- Send through the resulting re-run request.
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Searching by the
atlan-powerbi
prefix will ensure you only find existing Power BI assets workflows.Name of the workflow
The name of the workflow will be nested within the
_source.metadata.name
property of the response object. (Remember since this is a search, there could be multiple results, so you may want to use the other details in each result to determine which workflow you really want.)
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- Send the name of the workflow as the
resourceName
to rerun it.