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Unity 3D and Power BI

Discussion in 'Formats & External Tools' started by djohnston, Mar 7, 2017.

  1. djohnston

    djohnston

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    Is it possible to import the reports, tiles, and/or underlying data from Microsoft's Power BI directly into Unity 3D? If so, what is the best way to go about this?

    Another question may eventually help me reach a similar result, what is the best way to use external APIs in Unity and are there any examples? Thank you for the assistance! Let me know if you need any further clarification.
     
  2. mgear

    mgear

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    I dont know about powerBI features, but in general
    - can use tcp sockets to transfer data : http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/Simple_TCP/IP_Client_DLL_Code
    - www class to get/query from web server : https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/WWW.html
    - if you dont need realtime "connection", could just export as CSV and read that in unity : http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=CSVReader
    - there's more than few excel readers/importers in github

    and to display all kind of charts, asset store has plugins for that..
     
  3. IndaACN

    IndaACN

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    Did you ever get Power BI integrated successfully into Unity? I'm currently looking into doing this as well.