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pocari
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9 years ago
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Realtime Power BI dashboard without internet access

Is it possible to configure Power BI dashboard to refresh automatically in an environment without Internet access? I have tried installing the on-premises gateway but it requires me to sign in which ...
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    TomMartens
    9 years ago

    Thanks for the clarification, mentioning "dashboards" put me in the wrong direction, due to the fact that dashboards (as Power BI defines them, are only available in the Power BI Service).

     

    For this reason, there is just a simple answer: No (unfortunately)

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

Hi pocari,

 

>>If my environment is isolated from the internet, is there any possible way of achieveing realtime automatic refresh of my Power BI Dashboard without internet access. 

You should ensure the gateway can access to the external network and datasource.

 

>>For the on-premises gateway which allow user to schedule refresh interval why does it still requires user to login?Does it mean also that in order to use on-premises gateway, one need to access the internet also? 

Sign in user account is user to register the gateway and bind to specific user.(you can login in power bi servier and check the bind on-premise gateway at 'manage gateway' option)

 

>>For the on-premises gateway, what is the small refresh interval available? 

You  can take a look at below link which about scheduled refresh:

Configuring scheduled refresh

 

>>Is it possible to get realtime refresh from just using on-premises gateway?

Current On-premise gateway not support realtime refresh, you can try to use stream dataset to achieve the realtime dashboard.

Real-time streaming in Power BI

Stream Analytics and Power BI: A real-time analytics dashboard for streaming data 

 

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

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pocari
New Member
9 years ago
It seems to me that Power BI dashboard with realtime refresh is not suitable for on-premise environment without internet access. The 'on-premise' gateway needs you to sign in which you can't when your environment forbids you any access to the internet. Then realtime streaming in Power BI requires you to sign in to power bi service or azure service which again is internet dependent. I tried the newly release on-premise Power BI reporting server but from the looks of it, it seems to only support mssql analysis database for the developer version and the minimum auto refresh interval is only 1min, Please advise, ty.
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      TomMartens
      Super User
      9 years ago

      Hey pocari,

       

      I'm not sure what you are trying to achive.

       

      Currently there is just one way that automatically "refreshes" data in dashboard tile: Real-time data.

       

      As far as I understand, that is not your concern, somehow you refresh your dataset, and now you want to ensure that a dashboard automatically refreshes (without any human intervention, e.g. reopen the dashboard or manually refresh the dashboard).

       

      Maybe this link provides a solution for your task:

      http://www.victorrocca.com/displaying-a-power-bi-dashboard-in-your-office/

       

      If I'm totally wrong please excuse

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        pocari
        New Member
        9 years ago
        Main problem: No access to the internet, i.e. any Online services like Power BI service, Microsoft Azure service etc
        Main objective: Auto realtime refresh of my Power BI dashboard/report
        Question: Any way to achieve the objective?

        Please advise, tks.