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I have just published my first reports to BI report server . One of which has 4 pages , for display purposed I have another 4 reports that are the individual pages of the first report (ie first report with pages deleted but exactly the same underlying data and design). They all run on a 3 minute schedule refresh.
I have noticed that they all fail intermittently at different times and they give the following error message:
"Data refresh failed. Please try again later or contact your administrator."
With the information giving error details:
"SessionID: 979d17a1-e778-4ba3-accb-e3f69575a904
[0] 0: Model can not be refreshed for files not mapped to a network share"
What am I doing wrong / how can I rectify these. at first they were all refreshing fine but now they have become divergent and therefore all show data from different times.
You're likely using a relative file path that the Report Server doesn't know how to resolve.
Get the DFS/UNC path.
Thanks
Ive cheked the paths and they look fine.
It recognises them and runs internmittently but then doesnt run 3 mins later then runs intermittently ongoing. Why would it recognise the paths one refresh then not the next?
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