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Is a Manual refresh of a report on power bi report server possible ?
Hi
We are about to go live with an on premise power bi report server - i.e. on our network
When a user goes to the web portal - and browses to a folder containing reports - like
https://servername.domain.local/ReportsPBI/powerbi/folder1
then they see the report etc.
At the top - their are some options - File, View, Edit in Power Bi Desktop, Explore Refresh.
What does the refresh buton actually do ? i.e. will hitting the Refresh option do a manual refresh of the data in the report?
If not is there a way for the end user to force a refresh of the data in the report (from their web browser?)
Thanks
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Hi,
It refreshes the Visuals on the report based on the data, so if it is a direct query the visuals updated with latest data, if a scheduled data refresh (Import query) has occured since the page was loaded it will refresh and visuals updated with latest data else it does not do anything.
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Generally refresh data for all visuals in report.
But, it depens on report type and server configuration:
-If it is DirectQuery PBI report, it refresh data from DB source (which can be changed anytime, or not)
-If it is Live Connected (to SSAS) PBI report, it refresh data from SSAS database (which can be procesed meantime, or not)
-If it is Import mode PBI report, and you have single server configuration, it refresh data from SSAS cache (which can be refreshed meantime by scheduled refresh, or not)
-If it is Import mode PBI report, and you have scaled-out configuration, it does nothing (it is probably bug)
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Hi,
It refreshes the Visuals on the report based on the data, so if it is a direct query the visuals updated with latest data, if a scheduled data refresh (Import query) has occured since the page was loaded it will refresh and visuals updated with latest data else it does not do anything.
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This seems to agree with what we have found with our testing.
Thanks!

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