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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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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
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

Thanks - this is very helpful.

 

Appreciated.

 

Brian