This section is for all our customers who have paid/licensed versions of Power BI and who use it as a tool within their business to create content that is shared with all applicable internal users. To create templates and dashboards in Power BI you will be required to obtain a personal access token. This token enables you to be able to access the relevant data that you have permission to and then from that create dashboards externally to MiX Fleet Manager which can then also be published to all your internal users who use Power BI in your business.
The API will continuously be updated with more data fields as we develop the same embedded dashboards within our platform.
Important notes:
- The intended users of this feature are generally a customer’s in-house IT or Business Analyst teams who will create content for consumption within their organization.
- You will only be granted a personal access token if you are a user with access to your organization only and this could be multiple databases within your organization.
- MiX personnel will not be granted access to customer databases in any circumstances – this is a customer tool.
- A personal access token is linked to your MiX Telematics user account and should be used with the same sense of security as for usernames and passwords.
- A personal access token has an expiry date which is by default set to 6 months, but you can extend it to 12 months upon requesting a token.
- Reminder e-mails will be sent to you at various intervals to timeously warn you to renew your token.
- Upon requesting a token, you will be asked to accept our standard terms and conditions which are like MiX Integrate.
- Once you publish a template and share it with your internal users, they will not require to present tokens etc.
- You can set the refresh windows for your published dashboards as described in the “Connecting to the API using Power BI” for your users.
- The Personal access tokens functionality is a permission-based feature. Once the permission is assigned to you, the menu item will be displayed under MANAGE / USER SETTINGS from where you can easily obtain a token.
- You are not limited in the number of tokens you want to request.