Automatically Update Data on Teams without Re-Publish from Desktop

[Anonymous]

Hello Forum,

This is a great forum I have got so many answers out of it which saved my life! So I just thought I would go ahead and ask something that has been troubling me for about 2 weeks.

My situation, I have an excel spreadsheet in Teams, which I managed to link to a Desktop Power BI report. I have also published this report on service for everyone to see. 

The reason the excel file (dataset) is on Teams is so everyone can update the file and theoritically be able to view the updated dashboard online. Unfortunately whenever an update is made to the excel file, the only way to get the service report to refresh is to :

1. Open the desktop version and refresh

2. Re-publish the report and wait 20-30 minutes.

Is there any way that I can immediately get the results to refresh on service without needing to open the desktop version? As the desktop version is currently on my laptop locally and whenever someone makes a change they need to message me being like "Please refresh and republish the file". Which doesn't seem very efficient. 

Thank you in advance!

[Sujitkr47]

This might be different from the actual mentioned problem in above. But i am having difficulties on auto refresh reports which made from a Sharepoint online list,  published on Microsoft teams. What i can see is, the Power BI online application updates the report automatically once the list item updated. But, if i open the report on Power BI desktop application it doesn't reflects the updated list data.

Is there any way out to get the updated reports while sharepoint online list items getting updated without opening the Power BI desktop application and update the reports once again manually and republish it to my teams workspace?

Please help !

[mussaenda]

Hi, have you tried putting your excel on a folder then import it to power bi via folder and not via excel?

It worked on my side.

[Anonymous]

HI @Anonymous ,

How did you publish your report? Can you please explain more about these steps?

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In addition. I'd like to suggest you take a look at following link to know more about how to configure scheduled refresh: Configuring scheduled refresh

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[Anonymous]

Hello Xiaoxin,

Thank you for getting back to me and sharing the links.  

I have followed the following steps:

1. Uploaded the excel spreadsheet on Microsoft Teams

2. Connected to Teams from power BI desktop using "Get Data" following this post

3. Built my dashboard on desktop version

4. Published using the publish button on Power BI Desktop and chose "My Workspace" as the place to publish

Hope this makes sense , I apologise if I am missing a point here. I have also scheduled a refresh using a similar method to the one described on the link you shared, however it still won't update online unless I refresh the desktop version and republish it. 

Thank you again for your reply.

Kind Regards,

Stratoshad