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Power BI - Auto Refresh Embedded Tiles in Custom App

waqasarshed — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:19:17 GMT

I have a Power BI dashboard with real-time input data from stream analytics. The tiles on dashboard refresh automatically in real time and show updated graphs/charts. This works just fine...

However, my requirement is to embed the tile/s in a custom app and I want them to be refreshed in real time. I am new to Power BI so before asking question, I tried to use the sample app code from github and successfully used it to embed a tile in the custom app from my dashboard. But unfortunately, the tile is static and it does not refresh like it does when viewed directly on the Power BI dashboard.

So, just want to confirm if it is possible to have the real time refresh functionality in custom apps for power bi tiles? If yes, how? or any work around to get this done please?

Thanks.

Re: Power BI - Auto Refresh Embedded Tiles in Custom App

joshross4 — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:22:06 GMT

Any luck? I'm looking for a way to set the TTL for datasources like URLs or Web Services.

Re: Power BI - Auto Refresh Embedded Tiles in Custom App

Jpadda — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:03:16 GMT

Hi waqasarshed,

I'm attempting something similar, but can't seem to get the auto refresh to work. My data is in a static table format from stream analytics. I'm sending data that is not sent continually, e.g sales data. When a sale occurs, it will appear in stream analytics and be sent to PowerBI. But when there's no sale, say overnight, I'd expect the continuous stream to show 0.

I can't seem to get this working. Could the reason be that there's nothing for Stream Analytics to send to PowerBI, because there's no sale, so the Power BI engine will not have any stream to process?

Thanks