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Anonymous
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Data not updating

Hi everyone!

 

I have a problem with Power BI not importing new values from databases. All data is stored on our on premises server. I tried "update data" in table view, "refresh" in power query and general "refresh" from main Power BI ribbon. It's not the first time when I came across this issue. Last time, I had to make report again.
Do you have any idea what's going on?

 

Kind regards,

Dan

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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous - Tough to say given the provided information. What is the data source? Can you post the Power Query Advanced Editor code? Lots of questions.



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Ther's the code: 

 

let
    Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents("S:\Compliance\PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT\Conversions\Conversions 2017-2020 (Daniel).xlsx"), null, true),
    Sheet1_Sheet = Source{[Item="Sheet1",Kind="Sheet"]}[Data],
    #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(Sheet1_Sheet, [PromoteAllScalars=true]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Promoted Headers",{{"Reference", type text}, {"ORE - Converted", type text}, {"ORE (RAW)", type text}, {"Description", type text}, {"Creation Date", type date}}),
    #"Removed Errors" = Table.RemoveRowsWithErrors(#"Changed Type", {"Description"}),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Removed Errors", each true),
    #"Removed Blank Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Filtered Rows", each not List.IsEmpty(List.RemoveMatchingItems(Record.FieldValues(_), {"", null}))),
    #"Filtered Rows1" = Table.SelectRows(#"Removed Blank Rows", each ([#"ORE - Converted"] <> null and [#"ORE - Converted"] <> "")),
    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Filtered Rows1",{{"Creation Date", "Conversion Date"}})
in
    #"Renamed Columns"

Hi  @Anonymous ,

 

Did you get an error after refresh?

 


 
Best Regards,
Kelly
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Anonymous
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Hi, no I don't have any error. Data is very clean this time (and proud of it). I can see data in excel file, but Power BI not updating it. Recently I found same problem in other report as well. This time, PBi didn't update data from july only. Diferent spreadsheets, different folders, same server (it's running fine though). 

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Go to "Transform data">"data source setting":

Check whether the modified excel has stored in the source kept in desktop:

Annotation 2020-07-16 181003.png

Sometimes we may save the modified file to another location,thus for desktop, the stored data source would point to the file without any change inside.

 

Best Regards,
Kelly
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Anonymous
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Just googled why is my data not updating in my Dashboard, realised after I found this post and read your comment that I was an idiot and it was trying to get data from an old source,  cheers my friend

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