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Custom APIs and modeling for Power BI

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We want to create reports in Power BI and we need to expose BC data that's currently not available in the standard APIs, so we thought on creating API Queries but I've read some posts were people ask about custom APIs and the responses suggest using Pages, so not sure why would that be? we just need readonly APIs, is there any reason to use Pages instead of Queries?
Also, we don't have a datawarehouse/datalake, I hope at some point we can get there, so I'm not sure where to build the facts/dimensions for the modeling in Power BI, should I do it when building the query API? or should I create a query per table and then use power query to create the facts/dimensions?
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    Valentin Castravet Profile Picture
    32,689 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Similar thread here with answers to your questions - Best practices for BC Power BI reports
     
  • criztina Profile Picture
    76 on at
    great articles, thank you so much for sharing!!
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    Valentin Castravet Profile Picture
    32,689 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    100,974 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    In short, using normal pages and publishing to Web Services is the most convenient, but the performance is not as good as APIs.
    Power BI also marks the page as Legacy. I personally recommend creating a new API page.
     
    Thanks.
    ZHU

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