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Datamart not refreshing
- 2 years ago
We found the problem. One of the data sources had a field with a marked key on. We changed the format of this field from text to number, and this seems to have caused the problem.
It would have been really helpful if the error messages had told us this, as when we went to refresh the data source, there was no indication that this was what was causing the whole Datamart not to run.
I added the suggestion as you recommended and have fed this back
Steps to troubleshoot this:
1. Exported the power query template from datamarts using the 'Export template' button.
2. Created a new dataflow Gen 2.
3. Imported the PQT file into dataflow Gen2 and tried to load it.
4. It failed to refresh but produced a detailed report of load status of each table.
5. Figured out that one of the tables had a "failure to convert to number error".
The detailed error report needs to be available in Datamarts as well!