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Atif
Resolver I
7 years ago
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Power BI Desktop Automatic Refresh

My excel file and Power BI report both are saved on Onedrive Personal.   In order to get the pbix file refreshed every hour I fetched data by "Get Data>Web" option using the URL https://onedrive.li...
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    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Power BI desktop is a development tool.   If you are talking about an Import model, its a static file that only updates when you update it.  Its not different to a word document or excel file.  You can't automatically refresh the static file.  You need to open it with Power BI desktop and click refresh if you want to download new information.

     

    If you have a live connected power bi file, it will always be up to date as the data never lives in the file.

     

    Automatic refresh on the service is different, because the service hosts the file and organises the periodic refresh.

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Anonymous
Not applicable
7 years ago

Power BI desktop is a development tool.   If you are talking about an Import model, its a static file that only updates when you update it.  Its not different to a word document or excel file.  You can't automatically refresh the static file.  You need to open it with Power BI desktop and click refresh if you want to download new information.

 

If you have a live connected power bi file, it will always be up to date as the data never lives in the file.

 

Automatic refresh on the service is different, because the service hosts the file and organises the periodic refresh.

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Atif
Resolver I
7 years ago

Thank you! Anonymous.