Programmatically refresh PowerBI Desktop files data

[rui_romano]

Provide a way to programmatically refresh data from a PowerBI Desktop file. For example using a cmdline: "PBIDesktop.exe MyReport.pbix -refreshAll"

[Marc_lelijveld1]

I think this option is already available in Power BI. Like Travis said, you can use a scheduled refresh of your dataset.

[travismorse]

You might want to check out Power Update - it can perform scheduled refreshes of both Excel/PowerPivot and Power BI Desktop files. Our local Microsoft rep hooked us up with it and it is working well.

[SamTailor]

Must have!

[awilbourn]

Someone posted about Power Update tool, but when I ask about it to my reps no one knows anything about it. Where can I tell them to get it?

[kapija]

Need to have API to do this in portal

[fbcideas_migusr]

Need this command line tool or an api to download a pbix from service

[robl]

Command Line Control is what is needed! Can always go the SSRS/SSIS route!

[CTuerk8610]

Must have!

[Vincent_Sanchez]

I believe that this functionality is crucial in the automation of BI solutions. Tableau has this functionality already and it helps distribute the workload of refreshing/publishing to other resources or automated services.

[Vijay_Dodamani]

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