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Disabling "Include in report refresh" not working
Hi everyone,
I have about 10-12 reports that load the same Calendar, a SSRS report, in their PBI reports. These PBIX are published in the Cloud and are scheduled to refresh themselves overnight as well as during the day. We have found from SSRS logs that the Calendar SSRS is being called a lot of times, which is unexpected as the Calendar query within PBIX has its “Include in report refresh” disabled. Is that not how it works, that is, disabling this option will stop PBI engine from going back to the data source, given there are no appends and merges within this query nor in other queries?
Thanks
kaz
Anonymous,
" These PBIX are published in the Cloud and are scheduled to refresh themselves overnight as well as during the day."
"Include in report refresh" option only works for Power BI Desktop, it doesn't impact the refresh process in Power BI Service.
In Power BI Desktop, when you disable "Include in report refresh" option, data will not update in report view of Power BI Desktop after you click "Refresh" button in Desktop.
Regards,
Lydia
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Anonymous,
" These PBIX are published in the Cloud and are scheduled to refresh themselves overnight as well as during the day."
"Include in report refresh" option only works for Power BI Desktop, it doesn't impact the refresh process in Power BI Service.
In Power BI Desktop, when you disable "Include in report refresh" option, data will not update in report view of Power BI Desktop after you click "Refresh" button in Desktop.
Regards,
LydiaAnonymous Anonymous
Am I the only one reading this and thinking, "What the heck? That's POOR DESIGN by Microsoft!"
Disabling the "Include in Report Refresh" should mean just that, "don't try to refresh this data sourcr". It should NOT mean, "don't try to refresh this data source ONLY if you are using Power BI Desktop. But if you're using the Power BI Service, then try to refresh it!"
So the ONLY way to have a data source that does NOT get refreshed is to put it in a "Enter Data" table manually?!?
Sorry to say, but I'm VERY disappointed in MS for this design choice!
Not a very smart solution, I agree. But the most likely solution would be to provide a never changing datasource like an Excel and always load static data from there. You'd have to create an additional gateway data source though and might have a lot of unnessesary network traffic...
We ran into the same issue. The solution was to configure data sources on the gateway for sources that users imported once and that never change. Otherwise the gateway won't show up for the dataset because it is missing data sources. (They couldn't use "Enter data" because the amount of data was too big) That makes no sense, does it? Is there a was around this?
Can you elaborate on your technique stop refreshing what is essentially a 'static' table in a Power BI dataset, since there is no way with the Power BI Service to stop the service from refreshing specific tables?
