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Power BI Online Missing Column Error
Additional data on this: I attempted to rename the pbix file to see if it would force PBI to replace any "cached" data on the pbi server itself - that didn't work. However, more odd behavior occurred when I tried to publish the visuals directly from within Designer - it published successfully, but if I tried to schedule a refresh from within pbi.com, I received a different error that the dataset did not support scheduled refreshing...please note that nothing changed in my dataset that DID allow scheduled refreshing previously. Also of note, there is only one query in this file for refresh and it's a local CSV file located on the machine where the personal gateway is installed, so there's not reason that error should be occurring.
Also of note, when I upload the dataset from within pbi.com, the dataset IS available for refresh...basically, I'm using the exact same dataset uploaded two different ways (one from within the Desktop application, one via the pbi web interface) and getting two different responses.
Just for shiggles, though - I opened the csv source file for the query and re-saved it in excel...This appears to have corrected the problem for now since it saved as a windows CSV instead of a text-based CSV format.
The formatting for the original file was "column1","column2","column3" "data1","data2","data3" with the "Stop Time" column being the last column. Apparently Power BI sees this and can "absorb" it during the query process, but something with the online PowerBI engine does not like that format and it cleaves off the last column due to the lack of comma differentiating the column row from the first data row...that's what I'm guessing.