Enabling Hiding Data Updated timestamp in PowerBI App

[natalie_bobuska]

Hi, I came across an issue with "Data Updated" timestamp which appears by default at the top of a published PowerBI app. It changes every time a report owner republishes a report (which is not only in case when new data is loaded). In my experience, it confuses the users so I imbedded my own data refresh timestamp information in my published reports. However, the users can still see the default "Data Updated" timestamp and there is no way to hide it from them. It is causing some questions from the users on the what this means and so no. It would be the best if the "Data Updated" timestamp could be hidden by a report owner. Can you do that?

[sseaman]

This also affects reports that are using a direct query - as the data updated stamp does not update with direct query. This confuses users of the report as they believe the data is stale when it is in fact querying directly from the source db. The ability to hide this would be a useful feature.

[mx32076583]

This is crucial, is very misleading and honestly i think its bonkers microsoft havent changed this yet.

[Fwong1]

We have a dataset that's using direct query and the default date on the top is very very confusing to a lot of people. I agree that we need an option to be able to turn it off especially for DQ sources. 

[laurence_hoff]

The same issue as Shannon. We are querying an on-prem TABAS model through the Power BI service. The refresh schedule and "data updated" timestamp have no use for us in that situation and confuses the users completely. We currently have own own timestamp we show on the app so the ability to turn this off for a workspace would be incredibly useful.

[fbcideas_migusr]

This is badly needed! I end up having to put a disclaimer on the DBs explaining why the "Date Updated" at the top of the page does not represent the date the data is through. This causes A LOT of confusion.

[Mohammed_Abdul1]

Hi Team,

Please consider this as an important issue, as developers we have to explain everyone asking the reason for the date in the Data Updated section on power bi service.

Would be best to give some flexibility options or disable option.

[matthew_beamish]

Also, the date is in a format that is known to be unreliable (is it mm/dd/yy or dd/mm/yy?). Users who haven't set their browser format to their local preference could easily get confused by this too.

It can cause such confusion and distrust amongst users who are not data/IT savvy.

[TZWBG0]

Really love to take off the Data updated in title bar. It really making users think our reports are VERY OLD

[TZWBG0]

This data updated on in title bar for that reports that use On prem data gateway, with direct query.

[samuela1]

This is causing confusion for us as well. I publish data to Azure Blob storage and have PowerBI read it from there. PowerBI reads from Blob storage on a daily basis and "Data Updated" shows the time on which this occurs. However, we don't refresh Blob storage on the same cadence...therefore, "Data Updated" misrepresents when we actually pushed up data. Please provide an option that allows us to hide this at our discretion.