Powerview displaying external data

Hi
Can someone please tell me if a Prowerview report hosted in an Office 365 Power BI site can display external data from on-premise SSAS mutidimensional or tabular cubes without importing the data into the data model. The reason for this is that we are not
allow to store data overseas.
Thanks
Tim
SQL DBA

As of now its not supported, but have heard over different forums that it will be supported somewhere in future.
Thanks,
Sagar K
(Blog: http://datamazik.blogspot.in/)

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I am using the following cross-domain-policy file.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
 <site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="all"/>
 <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="" headers="" secure="true" />
 <allow-access-from domain="*" secure="true" />
</cross-domain-policy>
Any comments will be appreciated here.
Thanks,

Hi
I am facing the #2032 Error while running the Dashboard in portal developed using SAP Netweaver BW connection.
Scenario:
1>Actually our dashboard changes as fiscal year or budget type changes,so we have set trigger for the queries.
2>for 3-4 trigger times the dashboard changes as required without any error but after that when we change fiscal year or budget type it shows the following error:
Error:"Cannot Access External Data"
{ The BICS Remote web Service could not process your request.Open a CSN message on component BW-BEX-ET-XC and attach the technical details of the error from the following link:
http://sgsgsav0s2006:5000/bicsremotedebug?geterrorticket=KSF-1324043982210(this link changes each time the error pops up}
This error will popup and then the dashboard randomly displays data for some queries and for some it does not pull data.
After reloading the dashboard it runs fine for 3-4 times after that it again shows the error.This happens for 4-5 times then dashboard stucks at Initializing Screen for 10 mins then #2032 error comes.Then we restart our developement portal and the Dashboard runs fine for some time.
This happens even while triggering 4 queries.
We have
 Xcelsius 2008 Sp3
 Flash Player 10
 SAP EHP 1 for SAP NetWeaver 7.0
 SAP_BW sp08
 SAP_ABA sp08
 SAP_BASIS sp08
Dont know how to check Java Stack Version.
Please reply soon,so that we can proceed.
Thanks
Edited by: chinmaypadhi on Dec 29, 2011 7:44 AM

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