Forum Discussion
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.
We have made a solution that uses the free account type. The dashboard is updated daily via manual publish from Power BI Desktop. The webpage updates with the new data, but the iOS app does not. It requires the person to logout and then login again to update. Very annoying. Using the latest version of iOS app. Please note that it is the Reports the user looks at. Even when changing the layout a bit the report shows with the changed view, but data is still old. Must be some error in data updates in the app. I am using the latest iOS version updated 27th of april (same error in previous versions). Makes the dashboards quite useless. iOS is 9.3.1 (32 bit)
This is not the same issue.
I'm using Direct Query to attemt to pull data from the on premise data source. You are doing a manual publish from the Power BI Desktop.
Hi,
My customers are having the same issue - they have to log out to refresh. Did you ever find a solution?
Kind Regards,
FionaI am experiencing the same issue - our mobile reporting dashboard data is not refreshing on our iphones.
However, if I use the same URL to connect to the dashboards, then the data is refreshed-
Not sure if this is the correct forum since we are using the "SQL Server Reporting Services" section of the Power BI Mobile application?
