Get Project Insight Data into Power BI using REST

The REST API provides a data retrieval method directly to Power BI using the following steps.

Adding data to Power BI

1. Create the API token
• You must be an administrator to create the token from the API (REST) option in the Integration section of Administration in the left navigation.

• Note the REST API base URL on the following page as we will refer to it later.
• Click Create REST Api Token.

• Select the User Context for the data retrieval and click Create Token.

MAKE SURE YOUR TOKEN IS "WEB APP ENABLED". When you create your token in PI, be sure that you check this "Yes" so that this procedure will work:

1. Use the Get Data option in Power BI and select Web

• Use the radio button for Advanced.

1. Input the API URL for the data retrieval
• Use the REST API base URL noted in Step 1 with the appended REST API path for the item data to retrieve. Reference the Swagger API Documentation for the item's GET path.

• In this example, we want the list of all active projects by placing the full URL with the REST item path into the URL parts.

1. Input your API token into HTTP request header parameters
• Enter “api-token” in the HTTP request header parameters.
• Paste the API token created in Step 1 into the HTTP request header parameters value to the right of your “api-token” entry.
• Click OK

• Make sure "Connect Anonymously" is elected as the connection type
• Connect to retrieve your item records
1. Repeat Steps 2 through 4 to retrieve data from additional items.