Power Query Not Updating

[Anonymous]

Hi All

Need Your help

I have a simple table

Excel Sheet 1

Job Operating Unit	Sum_Net Revenue	Right_Sum_Net Revenue	Daily Revenue	Daily Avg. MTD
A	293,839	245,410	48	27
B	1,678,294	1,489,653	189	153
C	559,429	462,800	97	51

Excel Sheet 2

Job OU	Revenue	Daily Avg. MTD	Manual Column 1	Manual Column 2
='Daily Rev'!A2	='Daily Rev'!D2	='Daily Rev'!E2	29.24	25.67
='Daily Rev'!A3	='Daily Rev'!D3	='Daily Rev'!E3	198.86	221.1
='Daily Rev'!A4	='Daily Rev'!D4	='Daily Rev'!E4	48	46.29

Excel Sheet 2  is connect to Power BI , but BI desktop not refresh new values in Excel Sheet 2 ( when my Excel Sheet 1 updates via Alteryx)?

Any reason why?

[mussaenda]

Is your Excel  sheet 2 connected to a Live dataset in Power BI where the Excel sheet 1 is used?

[vanessafvg]

can you explain what you mean when it updates via alteryx?

so alterx updates sheet 1
power bi is connected to excel 2?

how is this connected, please can you provide more information, its not clear what the problem is.

[Anonymous]

Basically sheet 2 is connected to Sheet 1 via a formulas

[vanessafvg]

is alteryx updating at the same time you are importing it in, or have you validated that it has updated at the time you are trying to import the data in?

[Anonymous]

yes i have validated excel has updated, but values are not reflected in BI

[v-jingzhang]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Did you save your Excel sheet 2 after it was updated? In my testing, Excel sheet 2 is updated automatically when Excel sheet 1 is changed, but the data in power bi desktop which comes from sheet 2 won't refresh until I have saved the Excel file. When you click Refresh button in power bi desktop, it always tries to get data from the last saved file.

Best Regards,

Community Support Team _ Jing Zhang

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[Anonymous]

Yes I did save

when i open excel, I see values changed, but power query still displays OLD values.

if I connect to sheet 1 , i have no problems

when i connect to Sheet 2 ( which has simple cell linking formulas and additional columns) power bi does not update

so i am trying to understand how Power Bi Treats excel file with formulas

Additional info

Sheet 1 is constanly overwritten by Alteryx ( as and when i run it)

[v-jingzhang]

Hi @Anonymous , 

When Power BI imports data from an Excel file with formulas, it will bring in columns of values calculated by the formulas. 

I use your sample data and formulas in a regular Excel workbook without using Alteryx to test this. When I click either Refresh Preview in Power Query Editor or Refresh button in Power BI Desktop, I can always see the latest data from both sheet 1 and sheet 2. Everything works well. So I'm not sure if Alteryx will have some influence on this?