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Mimani
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9 years ago

PowerBI Embedded from an OData feed

We can create Power BI embedded dashboards from an OData feed through our enterprise application. We want to roll this to our 1000+ clients but we cannot force an update on the OData feed to make sur...
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Anonymous
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9 years ago

Hi Mimani,

Currently, you are able to refresh or set schedule in API if you connect to data source using Direct Query mode, Power BI embedded doesn’t support refresh for import mode dataset. An idea about this issue has been submitted in this link, please vote it up.

In your scenario, you have to refresh the Power BI Desktop file manually and re-import each time you have updated data.

Thanks,
Lydia Zhang

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Mimani
New Member
9 years ago

Thanks Lydia - is there a rough timeline that you're aware of? I see one of the comments says Q2 2017 but not sure how reliable that is. 

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    Anonymous
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    9 years ago

    Hi Mimani,

    I am not aware of the timeline. I would recommend you keep an eye on Power BI developer blog.


    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang