Outage in Spiceworks

Cloud Help Desk - Power BI Fails to Load Content

Resolved Minor
March 22, 2023 - Started about 2 years ago - Lasted 2 days
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Outage Details

When refreshing Power BI to retrieve updated values, you may receive an error like: "Web.Contents failed to get contents from 'https://on.spiceworks.com/api/public/power_bi/reports/xlsx' (404): Not Found" The cause for this is under investigation, however a workaround has been discovered by users: If you delete the exports that are triggered by opening PowerBi and manually run an export, you can then refresh PowerBi.
Components affected
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED about 2 years ago - at 03/24/2023 07:59PM

Resolved via a release Mar 23, refer to release notes https://community.spiceworks.com/blogs/help-desk-cloud-edition-release-notes/4050-cloud-help-desk-exports-power-bi-advanced-reporting-bugfix

MONITORING about 2 years ago - at 03/23/2023 08:05PM

A fix was put into place 22-Mar that appears to have resolved the issue.

If you're still having trouble with Power BI, though, email support: support@spiceworks.com

INVESTIGATING about 2 years ago - at 03/22/2023 02:49PM

When refreshing Power BI to retrieve updated values, you may receive an error like:

"Web.Contents failed to get contents from 'https://on.spiceworks.com/api/public/power_bi/reports/xlsx' (404): Not Found"

The cause for this is under investigation, however a workaround has been discovered by users:

If you delete the exports that are triggered by opening PowerBi and manually run an export, you can then refresh PowerBi.

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