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aruntd77's avatar
aruntd77
Helper I
10 years ago
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Auto Update PowerBI View

Hi,   I have developed the Report and pinned it to Dashboard.   I would like to project this on Big Screens. How can I auto refresh the view or Dashboard without clicking on Refresh icon?   Can...
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  • Eric_Zhang's avatar
    Eric_Zhang
    10 years ago

    aruntd77

    I doubt there would be a built-in way to automatically refresh the dashboard view. However, to reload the dashboard web page in a certain interval, I think you can try Tab Auto Reload for FireFox.

    1. Install that Add-on and restart FF.
    2. Open one tab in FF, navigate to the dashboard.
    3. Schedule a reload interval
    4. Press F11 to switch to Full screen mode.

      If you're not using FF, I think there're similar add-ons for other popular browsers.
aruntd77's avatar
aruntd77
Helper I
10 years ago

Some Dashboards are for every minute. Some will have refresh rate of every hour.

gheesalias's avatar
gheesalias
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago

Hi,

 

I feel you can make use of Data streaming options for this, especially when your update interval is in minutes.

The link below.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/real-time-in-no-time-with-power-bi/

 

The minimum refresh interval for Scheduled refresh in Power BI Pro is hourly, so I guess you will have to go for straeaming options in case of such frequsent data updates.

  • elliotdixon's avatar
    elliotdixon
    Responsive Resident
    9 years ago

    Cheers gheesalias it turns out the dashboard will automatically update when using the Win10 app and a direct query report.

    As direct query updates in real time pretty much.

     

    The scheduled refresh you are referring to only applies to Import mode and you can actually change it to update every 30 mins. Although you only get 8 updates a day.

     

    Rgds

    ED

    • gheesalias's avatar
      gheesalias
      Frequent Visitor
      9 years ago

      Hi elliotdixon,

       

      Many Thanks for that thought, but I tried giving a Direct Query using my IP address to a Power BI report and published to power bi web, but the report will reflect the change in data only after I do 'Refresh Now' manually. There aint any option to schedule refresh also, as in the below screenshots.

       

       

      • elliotdixon's avatar
        elliotdixon
        Responsive Resident
        9 years ago

        Hi gheesalias Don't worry about that error stating "we dont support settings for this dataset" I get that error as well on some direct query reports but the reports still work fine. I think its just some sort of bug in the BI platform.

        If you click on the refresh history link it will show you the refresh done by the direct query report. You should see quite a few entries.

         

         

         With direct query there is no ability to scheudle a refresh.

        When looking at a dashboard you can

         

        If using the Windows 10 app the report will refresh through the day. IT seems to be about every 15 mins. Any any data changes during that time will be updated.

         

        When looking at the BI website the dashboard will only refresh if you click refrehsh manually or refresh the browser.

         

         

        On the report pages the data will refresh whenever you interact with a tile (clicking a bar graph or filtering a table) or when you click refresh