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Anonymous

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9 years ago

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Automatically adding date for last refresh of data

Hi Is it somehow possible to automatically adding a date to your dashboard that tells the last date for refreshing your data? Thanks

Anonymous
9 years ago
Hi Anonymous,

You can directly use the last refresh time in tile of dashboard. Clicking the ... on the top right hand corner of the tile, then select Tile details and select “Display last refresh time” as shown in the following screenshots. The refresh time will now show at the top of the tile.

Another method is to generate Last Refreshed Date with Power Query, then create the Last Refreshed Measure and add it to dashboard. For more details, please review the following blog:
http://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2016/06/08/display-last-refreshed-date-in-power-bi/

Thanks,
Lydia Zhang

Anonymous

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9 years ago

I know this is late in the conversation, but I've been working with this today and have found that a better solution for me is to put the refresh date in the data source. If you're pulling from a data warehouse, use the load date. If you are using a query there's usually a getdate()/Now()... function you can use.

Even if you use the system time in Power BI Service you are only identifying when the Service ran, not the age of your original source.