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Microsoft EmployeeShare your thoughts on Automatic Page Refresh aka APR (Preview feature)
Resolver IIIFair feedback to the product team davebi . There is an alternative to this where you can use a Google Chrome Plugin to refresh your Power BI reports every 1 min. Why don't you give it a try?
Here's how to setup: https://bigintsolutions.com/2019/03/29/refresh-power-bi-report-every-min-and-show-on-a-tv/
Best,
Ranbeer
Super UserOne thing that really frustrates me about Power BI features and their release articles is that the authors seldom include the caveat of "for Premium only" when it so applies.
Would it have been that difficult to name the the subtitle in the blog article to "Automatic page refresh for DirectQuery details (preview, Premium only)"?
One has to read the article so see the words, "... enabled in your premium capacity by the admin ...". And that is the ONLY mention of "premium" in that section.
Don't get me wrong, it sounds like a great feature. I just wish I knew up front that it didn't apply to me before I start digging into its capabilities (like I did with Paginated Reports 😞 ).
My understanding is that it will work without Premium but obviously the number of refreshes are higher.
ToddChitt I agree with you. Shared the same dissappointment about paginated reports as well (after I read about it and told my manager). Our client base doesn't justify the entry-level premium capacity price, so we've got the embedded capacity (again, differences in functionality from premium and it doesn't support paginated reports)
- MiguelMartinez
Fair enough Todd, even though that it doesn't apply in this particular case for APR, since it's available in Power BI Pro but with time limitation. Point taken though so we will try to onclude this info in blog posts and be clear when the feature has limitations in Pro vs Premium.
- ToddChitt
MiguelMartinezWait, are you saying that this feature is available for Pro licenses? And if so, why mention "premium tenant admins" specifically?
What does "with time limitations" mean?
I'm more confused now.
My experience is that APR is available with a pro license when running from a desktop through direct query. We proved that we could do a 10 second refresh from a desktop. Unfortunately, this format is not suitable for a display on a large screen in a shop. Once we publish to our on prem gateway server (report and dashboard), the feature for APR isn't available on the gateway server, so limits to every 15 minutes. We experimented with live tiles on the dashboard but was rejected by the users (those who actually develop the reports and dashboards) since it doesn't let them format the location and size of the tiles. The gateway server limitation is where the premium workspace is needed.
