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Virtual_Ames
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10 years ago
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Easy consistent Last Refresh Time (your local time zone) solution - no matter how refreshed

If you want to make sure your viewers know how fresh the data in a report is - you may want to have a "Last Refreshed" tile showing.  The challenge is - if you publish from your desktop, you get last...
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    Eric_Zhang
    10 years ago

    Virtual_Ames

     

    Thanks for your sharing. That's a awesome idea to indicate a precise refresh time. :)

     

    Just some tips, no need to import the web as a source, the Power Query,also known as "M", has a "DateTimeZone.UtcNow()", you can get UTC time with that function and tweak different timezones based on UTC.

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Virtual_Ames
Microsoft Employee
10 years ago

Excellent.  Thanks.

Question though - let's say I want the timestamp value to always reflect the timezone of the user who is generating the report. Is there a way to set that up using M? That would go one step beyond the current solution we have on the table.

 

Brian

 

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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
10 years ago

Virtual_Ames

 

Add a custom column in Query Editor. The 8 refers to timezone offset, it always shows the local time of +08:00 timezone.

DateTimeZone.UtcNow()+#duration(0, 8, 0, 0)


If it can achieve your goal, please accept it as solution.:) For any question, feel free to let me now.