DataCentral
Send wizard
Build a distribution step by step: connect, pick links and recipients, shape the email, then preview and send — with live progress while the export refreshes.
1Connection
api.[instance].datacentral.ai — "main" or blank for the server default.
Tenancy name; blank uses the server default.
Sent as X-API-Key; forwarded to DataCentral.
Getting a DataCentral API key (needs an administrator in the target instance):
- Administration → Roles → create a role (e.g. "DC-Emailer") and grant it Organization Units, Power BI item links (or Item links), and Power BI Items.
- Administration → Users → Manage API Keys → Create new API Key: set a secret and an expiration, select the role, and store the secret when shown.
- Paste the secret here. It opens this app and is forwarded to DataCentral.
2Links and recipients
Group members receive the email via Bcc — they never see each other's addresses.
3Email content and options
Variables — replaced when the email is composed, usable in subject, header, and body:
{date} → 2026-08-10, {time} → 14:30 UTC,
{datetime} → 2026-08-10 14:30 UTC, {requestId} → the run id.
4Review, preview, send
Sending is asynchronous: with refresh on, the API answers
immediately with a requestId and statusUrl while the refresh runs in the
background — poll the status URL until the state is Completed, DryRunComplete, PartiallyFailed,
or Failed. Without refresh the call returns the final state directly.
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