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vanderMeDP
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6 years ago
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Cancel 'Working on it'

We need a button to cancel the progress of 'Working on it'. Sometimes people make errors or typo's and you press by accident the button 'Enter'. Then Power BI starts to do stuff to verify what you've done. But sometimes you pressed the 'Enter' button on such an awkward moment, Power BI takes ages to 'Work on it'. Not like multiple minutes, but over 45 minutes (after that I gave up). Only way to kill it, is pressing Alt F4 (or windows task manager). Would be 'nice' (vital requirement to prevent data/ time loss due to human error) to have that 'cancel' button there so you can stop the process.
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11 Comments

  • ajohns3's avatar
    ajohns3
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    1 day ago

    This is a really necessary feature - there is no way to bail out of an accidental trigger of a calculation, and these can take hours to either complete or run out of resources.

  • ben_clarke's avatar
    ben_clarke
    New Member
    2 years ago

    This would be a god tier feature. Could also hit Escape like in excel.

  • sara_dunn's avatar
    sara_dunn
    New Member
    4 years ago

    I miss the simplicity of Alt+Break that is available in so many other applications, including SQL Server. Having it available in Power BI would save hundreds of hours over the course of a year. Or a simple Cancel button on the "working on it" box.


    Please, please, please consider adding some form of this functionality.

  • Jeremy_Loman's avatar
    Jeremy_Loman
    New Member
    4 years ago

    Yo, Microsoft Engineers. I have to imagine this wouldn't take long for you to implement and would likely save us users collectively 9,999,999,999,999,999,999+ hours of waiting for PowerBI to work on it.


    It would be amazing if when PowerBI is "Working on it" we could:

    1) Click "Cancel/Stop/Pause/etc".

    2) Fix whatever we broke.

    3) Click "Go/Resume/Work/Refresh/etc".


    Please, please please enable this.

  • ameer_shakour's avatar
    ameer_shakour
    New Member
    4 years ago

    Umm...it's called stop, halt, alto, transaction...take your pick. Pretty please make this happen!

  • mchittick's avatar
    mchittick
    New Member
    4 years ago

    Same happening for me on a report. It's actually a fairly complex report which I often get a "Memory Allocation" error with when refreshing my datasets, so need to run it on a VM. But whenever I get the "Working on it" message after making a slight change to a measure, 50% of the time it is spinning indefinitely. I've left it overnight, and it is still spinning in the morning. The only way is to force quit my VM. A cancel button is definitely needed!

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