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Incremental Refresh Failure in Desktop for excel files

Hi, 

I followed this documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-premium-incremental-refresh to create two incremental refresh parameters (RangeStart and RangeEnd, Type as Date). 

 

Screen Shot 2020-09-07 at 5.06.21 PM.png 

Then I applied the custom filter using these parameters in my data table. However, after close and apply query editor, the incremental refresh setting is still not giving me option to turn it on. 

Screen Shot 2020-09-07 at 5.09.23 PM.png

 

Can someone please help with this issue? Not sure if incremental refresh only applies to relational database? My raw data source is a sharepoint folder with some excel spreadsheets. 

 

Appreciate the help in advance! 

 

Thanks,

Dennis 

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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous - Make sure that your parameters are of type datetime. Your image shows that they are date.



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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous - Make sure that your parameters are of type datetime. Your image shows that they are date.



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Anonymous
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Thanks @Greg_Deckler! I changed the data type to date/time and it works! I thought date data type would also work. 

amitchandak
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@Anonymous , Check if datetime, or some other data type for the columns in the table. This issue is usually of a data type mismatch.

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