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The Power BI feed is enabled per organisation. To turn it on, contact your Wordsmith account manager.
Wordsmith publishes an OData v4 feed that Power BI reads with Get Data → OData feed. It gives you three kinds of table:
  • Reports: one row per document, with one column per report column, typed as numbers, dates, yes/no or text.
  • Usage and value: sessions, interactions, active users, hours saved and cost saved, per day or per user, team, agent or skill.
  • Tasks: one row per task, and tasks created and completed per day with their average turnaround.
The feed is read-only. It returns what the API key’s user can see in Wordsmith. A table appears only when the key can read it and its feature is on for your organisation. A key limited to some scopes sees only the tables for those scopes. Of the features, Tasks needs Tasks, and TaskDaily and TaskDailyCoverage also need the Tasks view of Usage and value.

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Connect

  1. In Wordsmith, create an API key for the user whose view Power BI should load. A key limited to some scopes needs reports:read, usage:read and tasks:read for the tables it loads.
  2. In Power BI Desktop, choose Get Data → OData feed.
  3. Enter the feed URL for your region:
    In the US region, use https://api.us.wordsmith.ai/api/v1/odata.
  4. When Power BI asks how to connect, choose Basic. Enter any user name, and the API key as the password.
  5. Pick the tables in the navigator, then Load.
Choose Basic yourself. Power BI may suggest Anonymous, and the feed’s sign-in prompt does not reach Power BI, so it will not switch to Basic on its own. An anonymous request is refused unless the key is in the URL (see If the feed key is in the URL).
Scheduled refresh in the Power BI service uses the same Basic credential. You set it once under the semantic model’s Data source credentials.

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Tables

TaskDaily counts completions from each task’s recorded status history. A task created before Wordsmith recorded that history has none, so its completion is missing from Completed and AverageTurnaroundHours. TaskDailyCoverage gives the period’s UntrackedTasks (tasks with no recorded history) and LateHistoryTasks (tasks whose history starts after the day they were created). When either is above zero, completions are undercounted. Load it with the same period options as TaskDaily. Hours and cost saved are estimates priced with your organisation’s rates. Organisation figures include your organisation’s calibration, as on the Usage and value dashboard.

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Period and scope

The usage tables and TaskDaily cover the last 30 days unless the URL says otherwise. Add options to the feed URL to change it: The options on the feed URL carry into each table that takes them. For example, to load the whole of 2026: https://api.wordsmith.ai/api/v1/odata?period=custom&start=2026-01-01&end=2026-12-31. Organisation figures need permission to view company analytics. Per-user rows need your organisation to show named users on the dashboard.

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A report as a table

Each report has its own feed. Copy it from the FeedUrl column of the Reports table, or build it from the report ID:
Connect to it the same way. It has three tables: In Rows, a column’s name is the report column’s name, with spaces and punctuation replaced by _. A name that is also a filter keyword, such as null or not, gets _2 added. A number column is followed by a _unit column, such as Rent_unit, holding the answer’s unit or currency. Check it before you add amounts together. The Columns table maps each report column to its names in Rows. A cell in Rows is empty when Wordsmith has not answered it yet, could not answer it, or gave an answer that is not the column’s type. Each row counts these:
  • PendingCells: cells still being computed.
  • FailedCells: cells that failed.
  • UntypedCells: answers that do not fit the column’s type, such as “not stated” in a date column.
The Cells table keeps every answer as text, with its status.

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Filters and limits

Power BI sends filters to the feed as $filter, and the feed applies them. A comparison with an empty value follows OData: a row is kept only when the whole filter is true, so not contains(Title,'x') leaves out rows with no Title. A filter that compares values of different types, such as a number column with text, is refused with 400. It supports comparisons (eq, ne, gt, ge, lt, le), and, or, not, and the functions contains, startswith, endswith, tolower, toupper, trim, length, year, month, day and date. The feed refuses with 501 what it cannot apply, rather than returning rows Power BI would trust as filtered:
  • Sorting ($orderby) and counting ($count). Sort and count in Power BI after the table loads.
  • Other $filter functions and arithmetic operators. Apply that filter in Power BI after the table loads.
Tasks pages in the same order as the app’s task list. A task whose priority or position changes while Power BI reads the table can be read twice or missed until the next refresh. Each request counts towards your organisation’s rate limit. Power BI reads a table in pages, so a large report takes one request per page.

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If the feed key is in the URL

If you cannot use Basic authentication, add the key to the URL as ?api_key= and connect as Anonymous. The key then appears in the URL and in your Power BI file, so prefer Basic.