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MiguelMartinez
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6 years ago

Share your thoughts on Automatic Page Refresh aka APR (Preview feature)

It's been almost 2 months since the release of Automatic Page Refresh (APR) and as we work really hard to improve this new real-time capability in Power BI, we would love to hear your feedback and op...
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MiguelMartinez
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6 years ago

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.

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ToddChitt
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6 years ago

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.

  • davebi's avatar
    davebi
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago

    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.

    • ranbeermakin's avatar
      ranbeermakin
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      6 years ago

      great conversations in this thread - wish all features are available to Pro as soon as possible. 

       

      To correct few things in the post:

       

      1. Premium provides 48 refreshes capability for scheduled refreshes (read import mode). You can get away with this limit if you refresh through Power BI REST APIs if the worspace your dataset is in has Premium capacity or Embedded capacity attached.

       

      2. davebi Your scenario is not an import mode one. You shoudn't be worried about this 48 refreshes. You can directly query the source (I assume SQL server in your case), and get latest data as you wish.


      If you are using Power BI reports you can achieve 1 min refresh scenario by automating your Power BI report refresh (opened in the browser with ?chromeless=1 appended to the URL) through a simple Google Chrome plugin. Not the best way or out of the box way, but supports your scenarios and endless conversations and frustations.

       

      Happy to have a private chat to see where you are blocked. Once resolved we can update the community of the final solution acheived.

      -Ranbeer

  • MiguelMartinez's avatar
    MiguelMartinez
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    6 years ago

    Sorry for the criptic response Todd. Let me try again.

     

    What I meant was that the features is supported in Pro with a higher minimum refresh time (30 min). Desktop supports more frequent intervals up to 1 second because is not based on the service, it's local.

     

    Other differences compared to premium are:

    1. Admins can turn the feature on and off since it affects the capacity
    2. Admins can modify the minimum allowed time from 1 second to 48 hours