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Anonymous
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Dashboard alerts from shared dataset not working

Hi all,   I have had a look through some posts but wasn't able to find any that specifically match my case although there are a few that are close - unable to find an answer from these.   We have...
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    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Converting to a local model and adding another source that requires a refresh has resolved my issue - not ideal but it works!

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4 years ago

Hi  Anonymous ,

According to official restrictions:

Alerts only work on refreshed data. They don't work on static data.

Since alerts are only sent if your data changes, you won't receive duplicate alerts for an unchanged value.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/service-set-data-alerts#considerations-and-troubleshooting

The alert will only fire after the data is refreshed,

If the report is connected to a shared dataset, it will not be possible to set data refresh and will not trigger an alert

 

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Liu Yang

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    Anonymous
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    4 years ago

    Hi Liu Yang,

     

    Thanks for getting back to me, this was my fear - although im still not sure it makes sense as even though i don't have a scheduled refresh on this report itself; there is one on the shared dataset - the data is still getting refreshed.