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Data Activator Not Activating
I can confirm that this functionality plainly does not work for me as well. It seems like this functionality is completely broken and I am not sure why people are not talking about it more.
To give more color to it, the value stays exactly the same for me in all of the shown datapoints on the data activator design page for the trigger. But the card that I set the alert on clearly updated to new values a long time ago. I should also say that I am using a directlake connection and that the card is a basic card showing a single sum of integers on a tiny table that I have set up just to test the most basic functionality.
It seems like the thing that is broken is the connection between the data and the alert mechanism.
I similarly had it work a single time, but now it is stuck.
This would have been a killer feature for using the powerbi portion of fabric for my team. Without it, I don't know if it is worth it to adopt this tool in a big way.
Hello zzthatcher . You mention that you are using a Direct Lake dataset. At present we have a known issue with Direct Lake datasets, which is that you must refresh the dataset manually in order for Data Activator to notice changes in the data. This is a bug and we are working on a fix. In the meantime, if you refresh the dataset manually then you should see the values change in your Data Activator item.