Data Field Refresh problem

[PeterWilford]

I have a data refresh problem as detailed below.  Hope someone can provide an answer.

(Step 1) I have connected an Excel data source held in a company One Drive Business SharePoint site to Powe Bi.

(Step 2) Reports have been created in Power Bi connected to the data source in (1).

(Step 3) The Excel data source was updated with additional pivot tables and tables to extract new data.

(Step 4) I went back into Power Bi and carried out a manual refresh of data.

(Step 5) I expected to see a revised list of Tables and fields in the list that is presented on the right hand side of the desktop but none are presented.

(Step 6) I made a copy of the data sources and connected it to Power Bi and the new Tables and Field list appear as expected.

I need to be able to update the original data source

What am I doing wrong

[v-yuezhe-msft]

Hi @PeterWilford,

Could you please clarify the following things?

1. Do you store the Excel file in OneDrive for Business or in SharePoint Online site?
2. How about connecting to the Excel file from Power BI Desktop and publish it to Service, then manually refresh it?


Thanks,
Lydia Zhang

[ankitpatira]

@PeterWilford Follow this article to steup and troubleshoot your data refresh issue.