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Marcin_PL
Helper I
4 years ago
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Creating connection in model...

Hello,   I've observed a small but awkward and confusing change when refreshing data in Power BI Desktop September 2021. After clicking "refresh" I get "Evaluating..." and "Waiting.." statuses lik...
connection creating refresh
  • d_gosbell's avatar
    d_gosbell
    4 years ago
    Marcin_PL wrote:

    Has someone observed the same? Is it a bug? 

    This a bug with the status reporting in the Sept 2021 release that has been raised a number of times on this forum. I believe Microsoft are looking to fix this, but I'm not sure when it's planned to be released. Worst case I hope this would at least be fixed in the next major release (January 2022)

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Jolvay
New Member
4 years ago

In my case the problem was because for any reason, the input excel file, added hundreds of columns.

I just remove them and it worked.

  • Marcin_PL's avatar
    Marcin_PL
    Helper I
    4 years ago

    Hi Jolvay,

    The issue that I mentioned in this topic was a bug in September 2021 PBI Desktop and as far as I remember it was solved in the next release (Version: 2.97.2222.0 of September's 2021 PBI Desktop). 

    Probably your problem was connected with the input file, as "Creating connection in model" status is a standard status observed when connecting to the data source.

     

    Regards,

    Marcin