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karlplduckett
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7 years ago
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Python on Scheduled Refresh

On PowerBi Desktop we can get data using Python Scripts, but after published we can't schedule a refresh data for this connection. The PowerBI returns: "Query contains unknown funtion name: Python.Execute." It would be better if all features on desktop would work on web too. * this idea has been submitted before but was wrongly marked as completed. Please allow scheduled refreshes to work from data being sourced from a python script.
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  • jonas_hova's avatar
    jonas_hova
    New Member
    6 years ago
    This is true, there need to be a support for enough packages to enable you to do proper data import at least (API calls in particular)
  • luke_genetti's avatar
    luke_genetti
    New Member
    6 years ago
    This simple idea would be to data what a restaurant is to food. Imagine you own a restaurant. Food (Data) is scheduled to be brought in at the same time each day. Your chefs (python script in power bi) then need to process these raw ingredients (data) and cook (format) them into dishes (visuals in power bi). In our restaurant the chefs have one phone and can only talk to one person at a time. To get the same meal everyday, we have to manually call the kitchen (power bi) from our home (personal desktop) get the chefs attention (python script in power bi) and tell them to cook (format) the ingredients (data). This is very inconvenient. This can be countered by having a wait station where waitress/waiters can schedule ours orders to the kitchen. If we had a staffed wait station (scheduled refresh of python) we could avoid calling into the kitchen. This means the entire meal (data, processing, and visualization) can take place at the restaurant (server) and we avoid having to interact with the restaurant at home (personal desktop).
  • fbcideas_migusr's avatar
    fbcideas_migusr
    New Member
    4 years ago

    It's bizarre that Python is a data source on desktop, works for a personal gateway, but does not work for an enterprise gateway. It sets devs up for disaster because they don't realize that Python datasources aren't available until they deploy and realize this. It would be better to remove Python as datasource entirely rather than to set people up for trouble at deploy time.

  • marshall_thomso's avatar
    marshall_thomso
    New Member
    3 years ago

    I really don't understand what the issue is here, and nobody seems to be able to explain why it's so difficult or undesirable. Please just get this done, Microsoft!

  • d_funes_rojas's avatar
    d_funes_rojas
    New Member
    2 years ago

    Any plans to develop this ticket?


    I don't understand why the option of using Python in Power Query if then you cannot share the dashboard.


    From my perspective this feature exists to deal with more complex data input that needs to be pre-process before it is entered in PBI (something that cannot be done with DAX - which is fairly limited). It doesn't make sense that it exists in the personal gateway, but not in the enterprise...


    Dear Microsoft, you are lately developing good products. But they need to be polished a bit better :)

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