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AnkitSingla
4 years agoFrequent Visitor
Wanna stop download preview in Power Query
Hello All, I am using Power BI October,2021 release. I don't wnat to download the preview in Power Query. To achieve it, i have used settings as below: However, it still downlo...
Ehren
4 years agoMicrosoft Employee
Unselecting the background data setting just means that previews will be computed on demand, whenever you select a given query/step, instead of being computed in the background for all queries/steps.
AnkitSingla
4 years agoFrequent Visitor
Hello Ehren Is there a way to stop downloading the preview unless user explicitliy refresh the preview?
- Ehren4 years agoMicrosoft Employee
No, there isn't. Can you describe your scenario a bit more? I'm curious why you're wanting this behavior.
- AnkitSingla4 years agoFrequent Visitor
Hello Ehren, Someone from team accidently deleted the data from datasource (dataverse).
As i have not refreshed the data since last week, just wanted to get the same. As preview gets downloaded, not able to get the data(without transformation).
- Ehren4 years agoMicrosoft Employee
Hm. I'm not sure there's much you can do in that case. Your options would be:
- Re-populate the data source
- Temporarily point your queries at a different source that has the same schema