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Dataflow Refresh in Power Automate
I'm trying to setup a flow to refresh a Power BI dataflow. I saw back in December that there was a preview for just such a thing however I cannot find any info on if it's released or how to add it:
Is there any news on the connector?
I'm on the government power bi if that makes any difference.
Hey BenFox ,
sorry that was my mistake, I didn't read the question properly 😉
A data flow you can't refresh directly as an option, but you can refresh it with the API call.
For that you have to call the following REST API:
Dataflows - Refresh Dataflow - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Docs
This is also possible in Power Automate:
If you need any help please let me know.If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution ✔️ and give it a thumbs up 👍Best regardsDenisBlog: WhatTheFact.biFollow me: twitter.com/DenSelimovic
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Hey BenFox ,
that's still possible in Power Automate. Just add a Power BI element and you will see it.
Here I did it as a demo. Had to pixel the workspace list as there was sensitive data, sorry for that:
If you need any help please let me know.If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution ✔️ and give it a thumbs up 👍Best regardsDenisBlog: WhatTheFact.biFollow me: twitter.com/DenSelimovicI think that only works for datasets, not dataflows...
Hey BenFox ,
sorry that was my mistake, I didn't read the question properly 😉
A data flow you can't refresh directly as an option, but you can refresh it with the API call.
For that you have to call the following REST API:
Dataflows - Refresh Dataflow - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Docs
This is also possible in Power Automate:
If you need any help please let me know.If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution ✔️ and give it a thumbs up 👍Best regardsDenisBlog: WhatTheFact.biFollow me: twitter.com/DenSelimovic
FYI to the community that there is a 'Refresh a dataflow' step now but it is not listed under Power BI.
