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Content Pack Datasets Do Nothing - Issue or By Design
Doesn't that disconnect the data refresh?
Hi rayishome,
According to your description, it seems that you connect to a organization content pack, right?
In Power BI Service, only the content pack creator can modify the workbook and dataset, and schedule refresh. When the creator creates and uploads the content pack, that refresh schedule is uploaded with the datasets. For example, if User1 create a content pack and set schedule refresh, if you connect to this content pack, the dataset you get is also set with schedule refresh, so you needn't to set it again. For more information, please refer to links below:
The life cycle of an organizational content pack
Manage, update, and delete organizational content packs in Power BI
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu
- We want the share a dataset the user can use to create new reports, but can not edit etc. The odd thing is excel can connect to the dataset in the content pack, but the report designer can not.
Hi rayishome,
When the creator shares the content pack with one user, this user can make a copy of content pack and create a report from the dataset, but this customization will not affect the source, the original content pack, or other group members. I would suggest you take a look at the first link posted in my original reply.
As you mentioned "The odd thing is excel can connect to the dataset in the content pack, but the report designer can not.", I think it's Analyze in Excel feature. This feature is provided for us to view and interact with a dataset we have access to in Power BI, but we can't use this feature to edit the dataset. So you needn't to worry about this. For more information about this feature, you can see: Analyze in Excel.
Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu