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H20treddr
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9 years ago
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add or replace data in data set for a dashboard or report

Hi I just started using Power BI and I was able to create a report and also a dashboard.  I would like to know how I can upload a new data set INTO an existing Dashboard or Report using excel.  Said ...
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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    H20treddr,

    In Power BI Service, go to Settings->Datasets and find your dataset, turn on "OneDrive Refresh" for the dataset. This way, once you change data in Excel file, changes will be updated in Power BI too, usually within about an hour.



    Regards,
    Lydia

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

H20treddr Did you start by building your report in the Power BI Desktop? Or are you doing everything in the Service?

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H20treddr
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9 years ago

To start , I loaded as an excel file published to one-drive cloud and clicked to create a report from there.  I appears that was was able to update the data but publishing from excel on my local machine to the one-drive file, then this was refreshing my report / dashboard.