SIS-CC SDMX (Beta)

Note

This connector is owned and provided by the Statistical Information System Collaboration Community (SIS-CC).

Summary

Item Description
Release State Beta
Products Power BI (Semantic models)
Power BI (Dataflows)
Fabric (Dataflow Gen2)
Authentication Types Supported Anonymous
Function Reference Documentation —

Prerequisites

Before you get started, make sure you've properly configured the URL from the service provider’s API. The exact process here will depend on the service provider.

Supported capabilities

Import of SDMX-CSV 2.1 format. Other formats aren't supported.

Connect from Power Query Desktop

To connect to SDMX Web Service data:

  1. Select Get Data from the Home ribbon in Power BI Desktop. Select All from the categories on the left, and then select SIS-CC SDMX. Then select Connect.

    Screenshot of the SIS-CC SDMX Get Data dialog.

  2. Fill in the parameters:

    1. In the Data query URL, enter an SDMX REST data query URL (the web service must support the SDMX-CSV format).
    2. In Display format, select one of the options:
      • Show codes and labels; example: FREQ: Frequency
      • Show codes; example: FREQ
      • Show labels; example: Frequency
      • Optionally, enter a language preference in Label language preference using an IETF BCP 47 tag

    Screenshot of the SIS-CC SDMX Connect to Data dialog.

  3. If this is the first time you’re connecting to the REST web service in the previous step Data query URL, this authentication step is displayed. As the connection is Anonymous, select Connect

    Screenshot of the SIS-CC SDMX authentication dialog.

  4. Select Load to import the data into Power BI, or Transform Data to edit the query in Power Query Editor where you can refine the query before loading into Power BI.

Limitations and considerations

This version of the connector doesn't support importing data formats SDMX-ML or SDMX-JSON.

If you want to submit a feature request or contribute to the open-source project, then go to the Gitlab project site.