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Create "snapshots" on changing data
- 9 years ago
Power BI does not have incremental load at present. This means that if you try to timestamp something at the time of query load, you will get updated values for the timestamp when it is refreshed. You might be able to hack around this but I can't think of a creative way at present.
One solution might be to pull each week's data in as a separate table and have a custom column either in M or DAX that puts in today's date. Load the data, which will populate the field and then disable load and refresh for that query. You would create a new query every week by essentially copying the query, pull the data, disable load and refresh.
Then, you would have an append query that appended all of these separate tables into a single table. In this way, you would have what you want, albeit, with a bit of manual work each week to create the new query and add it to the Append query but that's like 15 minutes of work each week really.
Power BI does not have incremental load at present. This means that if you try to timestamp something at the time of query load, you will get updated values for the timestamp when it is refreshed. You might be able to hack around this but I can't think of a creative way at present.
One solution might be to pull each week's data in as a separate table and have a custom column either in M or DAX that puts in today's date. Load the data, which will populate the field and then disable load and refresh for that query. You would create a new query every week by essentially copying the query, pull the data, disable load and refresh.
Then, you would have an append query that appended all of these separate tables into a single table. In this way, you would have what you want, albeit, with a bit of manual work each week to create the new query and add it to the Append query but that's like 15 minutes of work each week really.
ugggghhhh... that sounds awful...
we have daily operating reports that are created in excel and distributed in a similar fashion as the original poster. There is no way possible for us to use Power BI and use this "work around" as that would be insanely time intensive and way overkill.
Why cant we just have the ability to schedule a send as an attachment like a pdf or excel file, etc. so we can have a snapshot version?
Surely there is another way...
- Anonymous7 years agoNot applicable
I am new to Power BI and was wondering if you found a solution to the snapshot report issue...We send daily reports in excel/pdf and I need that same functionality in Power BI
Thanks