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Trigger dataset refresh by user without license
Hello friends, I have an employee that is working on an Excel file in OneDrive for Business. She doesn't have a PowerBI account and there's no need for that. The file she is responsible for is a s...
GilbertQ
Super User
Super UserHi there,
As far as I know the only way to do this is once the file has been updated, someone would have to log into the Power BI Service and then click on the ellipses under the dataset and click "Refresh Now"
I currently do not know of any other way besides doing a scheduled refresh. Which you can configure to happen 8 times a day which should enable the file to be refreshed fairly soon after it has been updated?
As far as I know the only way to do this is once the file has been updated, someone would have to log into the Power BI Service and then click on the ellipses under the dataset and click "Refresh Now"
I currently do not know of any other way besides doing a scheduled refresh. Which you can configure to happen 8 times a day which should enable the file to be refreshed fairly soon after it has been updated?