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I have a Power Automate flow that queries a DataSet. It turns out, that does not count as activity and PowerBI disabled the scheduled refreshes. Any suggestions or something I can do with the Flow to count the activity and prevent BI from disabling the scheduled refreshes?
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You could have Power Automate run the refresh schedule instead? It can refresh PBI datasets. I don't think there's anything that PA cloud can do that would count as activity, off the top of my head, because it's not a "real" user, its just doing API calls. PA Desktop could, but that's overkill.
You could have Power Automate run the refresh schedule instead? It can refresh PBI datasets. I don't think there's anything that PA cloud can do that would count as activity, off the top of my head, because it's not a "real" user, its just doing API calls. PA Desktop could, but that's overkill.
Thank you I will try this out and see if it counts as activity. I can appreciate the idea that and API call is not a real user, although in my opinion, it should still demonstrate it is being used and needs current data... By design, I try and segregate a DataSet for API's. It is too easy to make a change to a DataSet/Report that has other uses, and ends up breaking the queries.
Hi @jmfillman ,
As far as I know, we can try to configure Power Automate to trigger.
Here I will give you some suggestions.
1. You can set a trigger such as “When a new email arrives” or “When a file is created.”
For reference:How to Refresh Power BI Dataset Using Power Automate (process.st)
2. You can try Power Automate visual as a button in Power BI to trigger the refresh.
For reference:
How To Use Power Automate To Refresh Data In Power BI – Master Data Skills + AI (enterprisedna.co)
Best Regards,
Rico Zhou
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