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joschultz
10 years agoAdvocate II
Data Refresh with CSV files on One Drive
I created a dataset and reports in Power BI Desktop from a CSV file on my Team's One drive site. I then uploaded it to the Power BI Service. If I make a change to the CSV file on the one driv...
Greg_Deckler
10 years agoCommunity Champion
Depends on whether you selected "Connect" or "Import" essentially. And usually, you use an Excel file when doing things this way so I can't be 100% certain how it will work in your case. But, yes, if it is an Excel file and you use "Connect", then that is my understanding of how it is supposed to work.
- joschultz10 years agoAdvocate II
Thats what I thought should happen. I just wanted to make sure that if I create a dataset/report in Desktop and upload it to the service then going forward it should auto update if stored in the one drive. But I cannot seem to get it to work.
- Greg_Deckler10 years agoCommunity ChampionDon't upload, connect. And I'm thinking it might not fly with a CSV file
- joschultz10 years agoAdvocate II
All I have is "connect" there isn't another option so that is what I click. It says under the settings that one drive refresh is active.