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Anonymous
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2 years ago
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Refresh Data Not Working (Smartsheet to Power BI)

Hello All,

 

     I have a smartsheet that items are deleted and updated often. In this scenario i have built a a full Power BI Visual report based off a Smartsheet that had a colunm recently deleted. Now i get a pop up stating it cannot find this specific colunm. When i look into the Table View, I removed it and tired refreshing again and i got the same error message. 

 

Please let me know how to full refresh the data to keep updating my live visuals. 

 

Best,
Daniel

 

 

Need Help

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    2 years ago

    Hi Idrissshatila ,thanks for your quick reply, I will add more.

    Hi Anonymous ,

    Regarding your question, did you connect Power BI Desktop to Smartsheet first and then delete a column in Smartsheet?

    Here is my data, I started with two columns of data. I connected to this data source using Power BI.

                 

     

    After I delete the column 'Col2' it gives the following error.

    This is because your Power query references a non-existent column name, find it and delete it.

     

    Best Regards,
    Wenbin Zhou
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    2 years ago

    Hello,

     

       Thank you both for the information. I have done excatly what you have mentioned and confirmed the row is deleted and it still will not refresh correctly. Please let me know if you have any other tricks or knowlege to assist with this issue. 

     

    Best,
    Daniel 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    2 years ago

    Hello, 

     

    I have followed the steps in the Advanced editor by mine is a bit different. Mine shows Removed columns. I tried to remove it but it was giving me errors. 

     

    Please let me know what i should do next please!!

     

    Im the only one in my company who is working with Power BI and this is my first month ever working with it. 

     

    I appreciate all the support. 

     

    Best,