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How To Consume Results API from Microsoft Power BI or Microsoft Excel
1 Open Swagger page: http(s)://yourdomain/CertifyResultsAPI/swagger/ui/index
2 Generate a Certify Results API token and enter the token. For more information, see Generating a Token in Certify Results API.
3 Enter the required inputs to the end point that you intend to use in the Microsoft® Power BI® or Microsoft Excel® Results Folders end point is shown below.
4 Click Try it out! and verify that the response code is 200.
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5 Get the following information from Swagger.• ResultsAPIToken• ResultsAPIResultsFoldersUrl
6 Open Microsoft Power BI or Microsoft Excel in a browser.Microsoft Excel: Click Data and From Web.
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Microsoft Power BI: Click Get Data and select Web.
7 Select the Advanced option and paste the ResultsAPIResultsFoldersUrl value from Step 5 into the URL parts text field.
8 In the HTTP request header parameters field, enter token in the first text box.9 In the second text box, paste the ResultsAPIToken value from Step 5.10 Click OK.
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The Power Query Editor window opens.
11 Under Results, click List Tools.
12 In the Transform tab, click the To Table button to expand the collection into table.
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The To Table dialog box opens.
13 Click OK.14 In the Column1 header, click the Expand button.
15 Select the columns that you would like to see in the report.16 Click OK.
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17 Click the Expand button in other columns until all the required columns are selected.
18 Click OK.19 After all of the required columns are selected, click Close & Load.
The Power Query Editor closes.
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In Microsoft Excel, the data is populated on a new sheet.
In Microsoft Power Bi, the selected columns appear in the Fields section, and they can be included into any visualization.
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20 Click Refresh to pull the live data.
