Error message seemingly unrelated to "\" and "/"

[benyhh]

I encountered this error message when trying to schedule refresh for a published dataset. It took me way too long to figure out the problem, and I still do not understand what the issue is.

For the report I used different CSV files and folders as my data sources. The paths were on the format //server-name/path/to/data, and I encountered the following error

Translated to:

You cannot schedule refresh for this dataset because the following data sources does not support refresh

• Data source for Query1

I could not figure out what Query1 was, and it took me 1.5 hours to find the issue. When I changed the paths to

\\server-name\path\to\data, the error message disappeared. There is a gateway to the location of the data, which might have something to do with it.

Hopefully this post can help people encountering this problem in the future, and perhaps someone can provide insight into why this caused a problem.

Thanks