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Auto Page Refresh for live mode Reports
Hii vamshikrishna20
If the assigned capacity supports automatic page refresh, the Power BI administrator can configure the minimum refresh interval in the Admin portal > Auto Refresh settings based on the requirement instead of keeping it at five minutes. The report page interval must be set to the same value or higher.
The behavior you're seeing is expected.
Auto Page Refresh (APR) is only supported for reports that use DirectQuery, DirectQuery for Power BI semantic models and Analysis Services, or certain LiveConnect scenarios where the underlying source supports query execution. It isn't available for reports connected to a semantic model in Live mode that refreshes on a schedule.
Since your semantic model is refreshed every 5 minutes (Import mode), the report will display the latest data the next time it queries the semantic model, but the report page itself won't automatically refresh because APR isn't supported in this scenario.
Your options are:
Manually refresh the report page in the Power BI Service or Desktop to retrieve the latest data from the refreshed semantic model.
If near real-time updates are required, consider using DirectQuery (where supported) instead of an Import semantic model.
If you're using a DirectQuery for Power BI semantic models (composite model), Auto Page Refresh may be available depending on your model configuration and licensing.
For more information, see:
Automatic Page Refresh in Power BI: https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-automatic-page-refresh
DirectQuery in Power BI: https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-directquery-about
Composite models and DirectQuery for Power BI semantic models: https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-composite-models