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Disable Dashboard Refresh
SeanL that seems to go against the entire point of refreshing the dataset. If you need to show some values at a certain point in time in the past it's probably best to use time intelligence functions to write a measure that specifies that point in time. What sort of data are you trying to show in this way?
I do think there are a number of reasons to disable dashboard refresh, one is that I need to futher edit measures/columns and a refresh may take, say 10 minutes, which may potentially hit productivity.
Actually I really prefer to have full control of refresh when I'm the DESIGNER, not the user. Idealy Power BI would have a manual mode when you are editing and it won't refresh at all until I click the refresh button. So if I load a new dataset and forget to hit the refresh button I simply can't use it, which is so much better than it refreshes every time some tiny new things/modifications have been made. But I don't think that feature will ever appear...another option is the ability to disable all visualization refresh.
One way to achieve this with equal visualization is to use Python + Dash but apparently it's out of touch of most people.