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When does a dashboard refresh?
Hi All,
Following your feedback on the Power BI community, we have improved the dashboard refresh functionality. You can now manually initiate a refresh to your tiles by opening the dashboard in the Power BI Mobile app for iOS and pulling down the top of the screen (see the animated image below).
When performing a manual refresh, we also trigger a tile refresh. Tile refreshes update the dashboard view, and retrieve the latest data in the underlying model. This means that you can be sure that your device’s screen is displaying the most recent tile data.
Please note that dashboards are updated automatically per dashboard owner configuration. Dashboards that are based on Direct Query connections have an automatic update about every fifteen minutes, so triggering a manual refresh will result in getting the latest data from the connected model.see Video in the release blog:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-mobile-apps-feature-summary-august-2016/
Hello again,
As the person who originally raised this discussion I thought I should return and report my findings.
From my testing I confirm that dashboards and reports collecting data via direct query are working great. The dashboards are syncing to the live, on premise data, when you 'pull down' the screen on the iPhone.Thanks to all who commented to confirm I wasn't going crazy and those who fixed/improved the Power BI product.
Hi team_steve,
Dashboard tiles that are based on direct query should be refreshed automatically every 15 minutes (or more if it was explicitly defined by the data-set owner when the connection was created). On the web, user can click on the elipsis and then manually refresh the tiles to save the 15 minutes waiting.
Recently we had high severity issue with tiles freshness but this was resolved already.
Can you please tell if you still don’t see up to date dashboard tiles 15 minutes or so after that the data was updated in the DB? Please check it both on the web and on the mobile (separately) if you can.
If you dont see up to date data please update the thread here and also open support ticket as this is not the expected
behavior (support.powerbi.com) .
Hello yaronc , you wrote that "On the web, user can click on the elipsis and then manually refresh the tiles to save the 15 minutes waiting." I can not find any elipsis or something where i can manually refresh the tiles..also are you talking about a dashboard or a report? Can you please help me? :)
Thanks