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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.

robbie337's avatar
robbie337
Advocate I
10 years ago

I've experienced the same issues that other users have flagged above (intermittent refreshing, then no refreshing at all since the 17th until the latest fix.

 

Now, since the fixes, refreshes are once again intermittent (both on iOS and in PowerBI), but now when i do manually refresh in Power BI, it'll refresh data every minute or so for about 5 minutes, then revert back to intermittent.

 

Anybody else experiencing this?

 

Thanks 

team_steve's avatar
team_steve
Advocate I
10 years ago

I've just installed the update to the Gateway and things seem to be running a lot better from the iPhone.

Dashboards are updating on demand (well, no more than a couple of minutes delay)

Reports are updating fine

The data between the dashboard and the first page of a report are in sync.

 

However, I have a report with 2 pages and one of the dashboard tiles is pinned from a visualisation on the 2nd page. The 2nd page of the report is up to date but the dashboard tile isn't updating.

 

Does anyone else see this? I would be good to know if this is a bug, or something odd with my setup.

I guess I can write reports containing only one page to try and workaround.

 

In summary, a massive step forward and small step back!