Forum Discussion

zrichardson's avatar
zrichardson
Advocate III
9 years ago

OneDrive Excel to OneDrive pbix to Power BI Service

This is my setup:   I have an excel document that is updated on OneDrive Hourly. I have a pbix file that is connected to that excel document that is uploaded to my OneDrive. Finally, I have the Pow...
Need Help
zrichardson's avatar
zrichardson
Advocate III
9 years ago

From what I am gathering, I can't have both.

 

If I want updated data every hour, I have to connect to excel through the service. 

 

If I want measures and columns, I need to connect to the power bi report through the service. 

 

Is there any way I can have both?

 

Thanks!

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
9 years ago

Hi zrichardson,

In your sceanrio, it is not possible to sync changes from Power BI Desktop file and Excel file with OneDrive Hourly Refresh at the same time,but you can also set "Schedule Refresh" for your dataset expect OneDrive Refresh.

Thanks,
Lydia Zhang

  • pntlindsay's avatar
    pntlindsay
    Frequent Visitor
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    I am a bit confused by these answers.  I have a similar issue:

     

    1. Excel data file file stroed on onedrive for business

    2. Powerbi Pro linked to excel file on Onedrive (using Gt Data > Web >url etc using OAuth2 credentials

    3. Power BI Pro pbix stored on Onedrive.

    4. Report published to Power BI service

    5. Set up scheduled refresh (min update is 24 hours).  Also have Onedrive update (hourly) enabled

     

    All good so far, in PowerBI service report has latest data

     

    5. Add data to excel file on Onedrive.

    6. In PowerBI Pro refresh report and see the latest data

    7. In PowerBI Service - refesh but do not see new data

    8. Wait an hour and refresh PowerBI service report - still not showing new data

    9. I have not yet waited 24 hours to see if hte data is updated in PowerBi service

     

    I had assumed that the hourly Onedrive refresh would update data and hence my report.

    Is this the case please?  If not is there any way to update the PowerBi service report more frequently than 24 hours?

     

    Thanks, Phillip

     

     

    I need to use PowerBI Pro, for its additional capability

  • zrichardson's avatar
    zrichardson
    Advocate III
    9 years ago

    Yes, from what I have gathered, to get an hourly refresh of your OneDrive Excel data, you would have to be directly connected to it through the service. If you connect to the Power BI Desktop report, it will not be updated through the Power BI Hourly Update. If you make any changes to the Desktop Report, those will be picked up on the Hourly Update.

  • JozeM's avatar
    JozeM
    Frequent Visitor
    9 years ago
    Then this is arbitrary close to being useless. We need to author reports in Desktop, and we need updated data.
  • zrichardson's avatar
    zrichardson
    Advocate III
    9 years ago

    That was my thoughts exactly. If you didn't need calculated columns or measures, you could connect the Power BI Service straight to your excel sheet and have hourly updates, but as soon as you want to make any more complex report or use custom visuals, that plan goes out the window.