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Birdjo's avatar
Birdjo
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9 years ago

Auto Refresh Dashboards and Reports

I was looking for a solution to my previous topic "Power BI x Android TV Auto Refresh" when I realized that we don't have auto refresh data on PC browsers too. What I mean is that when I update the dataset by publishing the report again, the report which is opened in Chrome or Firefox stays the same. 


I have found a solution to this problem by adding extension to chrome which forces the page to reload at rates which I can define which Is very handy but that way I lose the full screen functionality. 

 

Probably the issue is that the site is not forcing restart when an update in the data occurs. 
It would be very nice if this happens soon.

Need Help

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  • dkkip05's avatar
    dkkip05
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    9 years ago

    Hi, 

     

    Have you tried adding ?chromeless=true to the end of your report's URL string? Should look like this:

     

    YourReportURL?chromeless=true

     

    Once you get it to display in chromeless mode you can put the browser in full-screen mode (Press F11 Key).

    • Birdjo's avatar
      Birdjo
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      9 years ago

      Yes, I know I can put the browser in full screen mode, but the issue is that I can't put the Power BI app in full screen mode. So everytime the page is refreshed Power BI full screen mode is turned off but the Chrome full screen remains. It's not that bad but we still don't get a nice clean report page and have some black bars with info at the top and the sides of the page. 

      By the way I've spent my whole afternoon on checking if the Power BI website with my report or dashboard open on it is auto refreshing when a scheduled refresh occurs and the answer is NO. I have tried this on report, on dashboard with pinned live page and on dashboard with only one visual and nothing happend for several scheduled refreshes.

       

      So if we want to display information which is being updated we have to force the browser to do it and lose the Power BI full screen mode.