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Embeded PowerBI in PowerPoint not updating correctly
Hi,Roym .
Thank you for your replay .
Unfortunately, if changes are made to the report in the service, it needs to be re-embedded in the power point!
I talked to my team members about this result.
We believe that if you embed a report from a service into a power point, the embedded report is equivalent to an up-to-date copy of the report, and it can be interacted with dynamically as an interactive report, unlike a static PDF embedded directly into a power point.
Therefore, if you make changes to the report on the service, you need to re-embedded in Power Point, (after my test, it seems that the embedded report can not be updated by refreshing the report in Power Point).
The above is my understanding.I hope it can help you!
Looking forward to your reply.I hope my suggestions give you good ideas, if you have any more questions, please clarify in a follow-up reply.
Best Regards,
Carson Jian,
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Hello, thank you for your reply.
I apologize for misleading you by giving you the wrong solution due to my negligence!
In fact, as you said, you should choose PowerPoint>Embed live data.
Below is a test of the difference between the two URLs after I made the changes to the report on the service:
The URL before modification:
https://app.powerbi.com/groups/e4938c84-fd80-455c-b915-6c83cd51aafc/reports/828f6a59-b30e-438b-bb53-8b806a2fef9a/ReportSection?bookmarkGuid=bb076482-70a9-4366-87a9-c0d96f3de4dd&bookmarkUsage=1&ctid=5e6e4774-2619-475e-91e3-d9b872d71b57&portalSessionId=1a113748-3967-4b40-9c23-ccf1db86a3d1&fromEntryPoint=export
The modified URL:
https://app.powerbi.com/groups/e4938c84-fd80-455c-b915-6c83cd51aafc/reports/828f6a59-b30e-438b-bb53-8b806a2fef9a/ReportSection?bookmarkGuid=22f3e753-480b-4013-a095-fdd4969b6a56&bookmarkUsage=1&ctid=5e6e4774-2619-475e-91e3-d9b872d71b57&portalSessionId=1a113748-3967-4b40-9c23-ccf1db86a3d1&fromEntryPoint=export
Before and after modifying the service, the URL didn't change.
But I tested and found some details: after modifying the report on the service, I deleted a slicer in the report, and then revisited the power point (clicked login to refresh in the power point) but the deleted slicer was still displayed and still worked in the embedded report in the power point. The slicer still shows up and still works, I deleted the entire embedded report in the power point and re-added the embedded report based on the previous URL, and it shows up in the updated state (with one slicer missing).
So I suggest that if you make any changes to the service, you remove the original embedded report from the power point and re-embed a new one based on the URL to keep the report up-to-date in the power point.
I hope my suggestions give you good ideas, if you have any more questions, please clarify in a follow-up reply.
Best Regards,
Carson Jian,
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Thanks, this is indeed what I also found out that re-adding the url to PowerPoint works, but this is still an issue for us as we thought that using live data means that the PowerPoint would always reflect the new situation. Is there not another way to achieve this? Or otherwise if an issue or something can be created for this?
Hi,Roym .
Thank you for your replay .
Unfortunately, if changes are made to the report in the service, it needs to be re-embedded in the power point!
I talked to my team members about this result.
We believe that if you embed a report from a service into a power point, the embedded report is equivalent to an up-to-date copy of the report, and it can be interacted with dynamically as an interactive report, unlike a static PDF embedded directly into a power point.
Therefore, if you make changes to the report on the service, you need to re-embedded in Power Point, (after my test, it seems that the embedded report can not be updated by refreshing the report in Power Point).
The above is my understanding.I hope it can help you!
Looking forward to your reply.I hope my suggestions give you good ideas, if you have any more questions, please clarify in a follow-up reply.
Best Regards,
Carson Jian,
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Okay clear unfortunate that there is no option to refresh also if the report itself changes, not only the data.
I'm not sure that is the correct answer.
In my experience, the bottleneck is that that the embeded report only updates about once an hour. The semantic model i live, so the data is updated at the spot, but the report elements, slicers, layout and so on, will not be pushed before the next scheduled update. (unless you make a new embed link).
Also be aware that the active slicers on a report will affect any embeded visual. if you share an visual where the slicers are not visible, you can't deactive the filters applied from those slicers.
