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Prism Dataset Load Fails with "Failed While Retrieving Data From the Source"

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The error Failed while retrieving data from the source.

What it means

A Prism Analytics integration that loads data from a custom report into a base table fails for a specific user even though that user owns the report, the table, and has a Prism security group assigned. The failure is a security domain gap combined with how the report is being tested, not a data problem.

Troubleshooting

  1. Confirm the failing account's Prism role assignments include both Prism Admin or Prism Writer and the Prism: Manage File Containers domain; owning the report and table alone doesn't grant the file-container access the load step needs.
  2. Check whether the load was tested via a proxy or impersonated session rather than the user's own direct login; several reported cases only failed under proxy and succeeded once the actual user logged in and ran it themselves.
  3. Re-run the load with the user logged in directly (no proxy) after confirming the domain grant, to isolate whether the fix was the security domain, the login method, or both.
  4. If it still fails, check whether pending security policy changes for the added domain were ever activated, since an unactivated grant behaves identically to a missing one.
⚡ Quick fix

Have the actual user log in directly (not via proxy or impersonation) and re-run the report-driven load once the Prism: Manage File Containers domain is confirmed on their security group.

✓ Permanent fix

Add Prism: Manage File Containers to the standard security group template used for anyone who owns or maintains Prism-enabled custom reports, and document that proxy sessions are not a valid way to test Prism data loads, so this doesn't get rediscovered per-user.

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