Known issue - Dynamics 365 Business Central connector causes refresh failures

You can use a Dynamics 365 Business Central connector in your semantic model or dataflow. You might experience a failure when refreshing the semantic model or dataflow.

Status: Fixed: October 9, 2024

Product Experience: Power BI

Symptoms

When refreshing a semantic model or dataflow that uses a Dynamics 365 Business Central connector, you receive an error. The error is similar to: error: The OData connector failed with the following error: We cannot convert the value null to type Record... . The exception was raised by the IDbCommand interface.

Solutions and workarounds

As a workaround, you can manually change the query from the advanced editor. In the query, add a record as the last parameter to the query, from: Dynamics365BusinessCentral.ApiContentsWithOptions(null, null, null, null) to: Dynamics365BusinessCentral.ApiContentsWithOptions(null, null, null, [UseReadOnlyReplica = true]).

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