Power Query to SAP BO - Connection issue

Hi all,
I have spent a few hours trying to connect my Power Query addon to Business Objects.
But I am now facing an issue, and I can't do anything for it. It would be interesting to have your feedback on this :-)
I have the right address (link) to enter in the first invite in order to access to my universe, but my issue comes at the moment where I have to log in.
I know exactly what to enter, but the thing is that numbers in my password disappears when validating, and the authentification mode comes back on "Enterprise"
by default, so I am unable to link to my business objects universe...
I have all the minimum requirements, everything is ready to be used, I just have this small issue to fix... :-(
I have already uninstalled and re-installed it a few times to be sure...
Example with images :
1/ I enter my credentials as I should, and validate.
2/ Once I validated, I have an error message. When I go back in the options to see what is currently used for the connection, here is what I get :
Numbers disappeared and enterprise came back by default.
Did someone met this issue before? How could I found a workaround solution?
Thanks to all of you for your help and have a great evening,
Best regards,
Anthony.

I can confirm that modes other than "Windows AD" are not getting properly represented by the credentials dialog. We'll file a work item to fix this.
I cannot reproduce the issue where the numbers at the end of the password are truncated. The number of dots in the password field doesn't actually represent the length of the password that was entered previously and will be used. Maybe there's
some confusion because of that?
Is this issue blocking you from connecting? If so, are you blocked from connecting because the password gets truncated?

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Edited by: AMIT GHILDYAL on Aug 1, 2011 2:44 PM
Edited by: AMIT GHILDYAL on Aug 1, 2011 3:14 PM

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