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Get last date and time a dataflow was refreshed
My Power BI report fetches data from a dataflow in another workspace. I would like to show the last "date and time" the dataflow was refreshed. I can see the "date and time" in the workspace ...
A slighty roundabout way is to create a Power Automate flow that triggers when a dataflow refresh is complete. For example you could write to a reference file on a sharepoint. We mostly use it to request a refresh for a downstream dataset.
Obligatory note: The refresh date of a dataflow or dataset is largely meaningless. What really counts is the data freshness inside the dataflow or dataset. Ideally that is a last modified date, or a latest order date etc. Dataflows will happily and successfully refresh stale data over and over if you ask them to.
You can create an blank entity an enter the below code:
let
Source = #table(type table[LastRefresh=datetime], {{DateTime.LocalNow()}})
in
Source