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Johann_32
Advocate II
3 years ago

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Hello,   in many of our Power BI reports and its connected datasets, we would have the requirement to not always have a full load of the data. Instead, we would need a feature like it is known e.g...
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HughLa
Resolver IV
3 years ago

Hi Johann

 

There is no feature like this in Power BI itself. But you should probably be able to do this through an embedded Power Apps app and Flow to kick off a data refresh with the desired parameters?

 

Good luck!

Hugh

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    Johann_32
    Advocate II
    3 years ago

    Hi!

    Thanks for your answer.

     

    Understand.. but this would mean that in our case, where we are only using Dataflows as a source in Power BI, this Power App would need to be connected to the Dataflows, and not to the dataset of the Report.

     

    And now this would make it complicated for us, because dataflows are IT-managed in our company and Power BI Report Designers only have Viewing access on those dataflows. Also, if a Power App would change the parameters of a Dataflow, that would also mean the parameter is changed for every consumer of the dataflow?

     

    Thanks!

    Johann