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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.
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!
I thought I'd jump into this thread with a description of what we're seeing when attempting to refresh dashboards on mobile. I've got 2 datasets using DirectQuery, one connects to an on premise SSAS Tabular 2014 Enterprise model and the second connects to a view on an on premise SQL Server 2014 Enterprise database.
The mobile app rarely shows updated data, the tabular model holds data at the date/day level and when syncing won't show the previous day's data. I need to logon to the web service and do a manual refresh, even the web service dashboards are not up to date. However the underlying reports are up to date. I've tried the new On Premise Data Gateway but it's the same issue. The last refresh stamp on the tiles is also out of date.
I've been in contact with MS support on this and was told that mobile dashboards are not updated automatically by design, but I can't believe that's the case at it currently makes the mobile app pointless.