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Hi Experts,
I have a free account of Power BI, my data are in Excel file. I make a dashboard from this file in Power BI on-line but I can't refresh data ? Is it possible with PBI free ? Do I have to set up PBI Gateway ?
Thanks for help !
Solved! Go to Solution.
@wrybel You can't use a gateway and schedule a refresh on the dataset unless you have a Pro license. You would have to manually refresh the Desktop file, and republish in order for the data to get updated in the Service.
@wrybel You can't use a gateway and schedule a refresh on the dataset unless you have a Pro license. You would have to manually refresh the Desktop file, and republish in order for the data to get updated in the Service.
Thanks a lot !
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