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frano72
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6 years ago

Disabling load on linked entity - what is effect on computed entity ?

Hi,   I read something on radacad informative site "You can create a reference even from a query that is the disabled load. However, that is not called a Computed entity, and as a result, it won’t ...
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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Will the linked entity still refresh?  Or is it static with the data that existed before enable load was disabled?

 

For my dataflow, I don't need the linked entity to load into a report.  I just need a few fields to merge into the main entity.  But the data does update constantly so it has to be a fresh pull.  I'm trying to figure out if unchecking enable load prevents keeping the linked data current.

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collinq
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5 years ago

HI Anonymous ,

 

There are two options - enable load and refresh.  You can disable the load but keep the refresh Enabled.

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    I'm familiar with that on the desktop version.  For the PBI Service however, where I'm creating my dataflows, I don't actually see the refresh option when I right click the table.  Only the Enable Load.  Is it housed somewhere else perhaps?

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      collinq
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      5 years ago

      HI Anonymous ,

       

      My apologies, I didn't realize this was about a dataflow.  I do not think there is an "include in report" and you have only the "enable load" or not option.  And, therefore, if you are using data (even a few columns only) you have to enable load for the whole data source.  maybe you can make a mini-version of the larger data source somewhere to get a smaller data source to load as your merge columns?

       

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