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jhorbury
Regular Visitor
10 years ago

Refreshing dashboard in browser which uses direct query

I have set up a dashboard which uses directquery to connect to a SQL database. The databases is updated every few minutes.   When I publish and view the dashboard, it shows updated data everytime I...
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Sokon
Advocate V
10 years ago

I agree that this is an important feature. There's this post in the documentation that states for direct and live connections 'Because there is a direct connection between Power BI and the database, there is no need to schedule refresh'. While that's true for a refresh of the dataset, it is NOT true for data shown on screen. There's a 'refresh' button in the report's menu bar for a reason! We need to schedule that refresh.

 

By this, it would easily be possible to update reports with changing data during the day in an near-real-time manne, without having the necessity to learn how to use Real Time Data in PBI.

 

If you have the same problem, I suggest voting for this idea!

 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    6 years ago

    Has anyone found a decent solution to this ? I have been using a 3rd party add-in to rfresh the page but would like something to simulate the refresh button press.