Hi,
I am trying to query a Salesforce Datasource using the Salesforce API in Power BI.
The issue I am having is that the Salesforce API requires the SOQL to either contain a WHERE clause on the specific query being performed, by using an explicit value "=" or a IN operator.
If I use something like the following
each ([Column] = "value")
It works, however if I try and pass a list like the following:
each List.Contains(myList, [Column])
It fails with an error because the SOQL query being executed in the background clearly does a filtering AFTER all the data has been returned (i.e being filtered in Power BI after its been retrieved and not at source) and the Web API is expecting a IN operating with a list of values.
With regards to the first query, this works because the SOQL in the background is WHERE (MyField = 'someValue')
Does anyone have any ways around this? Can Power BI pass a collection into a where clause some way?
If not, I thought about querying the records by a single value and looping through this but it will have performance issues and not the best way of doing such query!
I have also tried joining the tables on the field I need but it also looks like the joins are performed after the data is retrived and not before (using SOQL).
I cannot modify the Web API to support other queries.
Thank you!