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Automatically adding date for last refresh of data
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
PavelR Thanks for your reply.
Sounds pretty easy going when importing data from excel, csv. The thing is, that I use "live" (when refreshing) data from Salesforce repports.
I'm not sure what you mean by showing refresh date when editing tile? Can you explain?
/Anders
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
For some reason I don't get the "Tile Detail" virw by selecting "..." in upper right corner. I can only select "Export data" - which PBI desktop vesion are you working in?
I've already found the workaround for adding refresh date by using the Query Editor and creating a measure:
But the date for refreshing is not right, by that I mean, I did not press refresh yet - it's a couple of days ago now, but the date shown is today. Properly it will only work from further on?
Hi Anonymous,
The "Tile Detail" option is avaliable in Power BI Service but not in Power BI Desktop. You would need to publish your report to Power BI Service, then pin visual to a dashboard. This way, you will able to view "Tile Detail" option and “Display last refresh time” option.
Thanks,
Lydia Zhang
Anonymous i tried the workaround using the blog in the second method ...its working but,..i have question..
basically its just current datetime that is used in that method. ,In desktop when we refresh, it refreshes the data,,,soo that field will just show the curent datetime..But when publish it to service,,..and if we hit refresh on th report ribbon(not dataset refresh) it is showing last dataset refresh time and not the currentdatatime,,,basically this is what we want to show...but it is surprising me that how its tied to dataset refresh time and not the currentdateime..Any idea?
Anonymous and if we want to show current datetime in pbi service, what do we use?...since using now() is only showing the dataset last refresh date.....
How can you do it in a report?
Edit:
This tutorial solved my problem
https://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2016/06/08/display-last-refreshed-date-in-power-bi/
