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team_steve
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10 years ago
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When does a dashboard refresh?

Hello, There are similar posts to this but no clear explanations or solutions that I've seen. I'm evaluating PowerBI and have to say I'm liking what I see. I’ve created a report contain a simp...
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  • RomiK's avatar
    RomiK
    9 years ago

    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/

  • team_steve's avatar
    team_steve
    9 years ago

    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.

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Tsanka
Kudo Collector
10 years ago

Hi yaronc,

 

As these days we experiencing issues with the auto refresh (both mobile and service), could you please pass some information if the bugs you mentioned are fixed in the Production?

 

Thanks

Tsanka

 

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yaronc
Power BI Team
10 years ago

hi Tsanka,

Recently we fixed some issues related to refresh of dashboards connected directly (or through gateway) to data.

These kind of dashboards should be updated automatically every 15 minutes (or as the user configured when connected to the data).

Can you please test it once again (on the web first and later on mobile) and tell if the data is not updated in the expected timeframe?

 

In addition we are looking on adding to the mobile apps the option to do manual refresh of these dashboards to bring the latest data.

We cannot commit on this capability yet but if we not tackle problems it will be delivered very soon.

 

Hope to hear that it works now better for you.

 

Thanks,

Yaron