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How update reports without personal gateway?
hat do you mean with
"Have you uplodaded your PBI report to the PBI service? "
The way Power BI works basically is you create your report on Power BI Desktop (import data from data sources, clean up/transform data ect in Power Query, create the model and measures etc..) and then upload the report to the Power BI service (online), though you can also create reports directly in the service if you wish. From the service, you share the report with users or you can acess the report from anywhere (other computers, tablets, phones...). This is where you set up the gateway, if need be, to keep your report up to date with data changes. So the Desktop app is where you author the reports; the service is where you "consume" the data so to speak. In order to keep the data up to date in Desktop, you need to refresh the data sources manually (it is not designed to update automatically). Once it's uploaded to the service, the data can be updated automatically- setting up a Gateway or through OneDrive.
To do this you need to set up an account in the service, and to upload the reports to the service, you need to login to the service on Desktop.
Check the documentation, for example here: