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thedavegray
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8 years ago
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Hi,    First day using PowerBI.  I have to write (by the end of this week) a dashboard based upon our service desk SQL 2012 database.    The dashboard will have six tiles, each of which will pull...
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    v-ljerr-msft
    8 years ago

    Hi thedavegray,

    I'm workign through the getting started articles but before I spent too much time, I want to be sure that PowerBI can do this, sort of function as a web page and refresh itself. 

    Yes. When you pin a tile to a Power BI dashboard from a report, tile refresh automatically updates the cache for tile visuals, on the dashboard, once data changes. This happens about every fifteen minutes.

     

    In addition, here is a similar thread for your reference. :smileyhappy:

     

    Regards

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v-ljerr-msft
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

Hi thedavegray,

I'm workign through the getting started articles but before I spent too much time, I want to be sure that PowerBI can do this, sort of function as a web page and refresh itself. 

Yes. When you pin a tile to a Power BI dashboard from a report, tile refresh automatically updates the cache for tile visuals, on the dashboard, once data changes. This happens about every fifteen minutes.

 

In addition, here is a similar thread for your reference. :smileyhappy:

 

Regards