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justinh
Advocate IV
6 years ago
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Disable Refresh Upon Publish?

When I refresh a dataset in Desktop, make some changes like adding RLS roles, and then publish to the Service, the Service then does another refresh on the dataset. This prevents me from adding peopl...
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  • MichaelOgaz's avatar
    MichaelOgaz
    6 years ago

    justinh 

    If you have scheduled refresh enabled for your dataset in the PowerBI service then a refresh will be run for your dataset every time you re-publish it from PowerBI Desktop. They way I avoid this is by disabling the scheduled refresh, publish my dataset then re-enable the scheduled refresh. 

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MichaelOgaz
Advocate I
6 years ago

justinh 

If you have scheduled refresh enabled for your dataset in the PowerBI service then a refresh will be run for your dataset every time you re-publish it from PowerBI Desktop. They way I avoid this is by disabling the scheduled refresh, publish my dataset then re-enable the scheduled refresh. 

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    justinh
    Advocate IV
    6 years ago

    Thank you MichaelOgaz

    This work-around is exactly what I was looking for.

    It would be nice if this issue didn't exist, but so long as it does, I'm glad there is a way around it.

    Thanks.