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Excel Datamodel scheduled refresh
- Anonymous2 years ago
Alan_ , so I'm not sure what the issue is, but the Power Automate task is failing on the refresh. It worked when I tested it, but on the schedule for the last 2 weeks, it has been failing:
{ "error": { "code": 504, "source": "flow-apim-msmanaged-na-northcentralus-01.azure-apim.net", "clientRequestId": "****" "message": "BadGateway", "innerError": { "status": 504, "message": "Request to Graph API has timed out.\r\nclientRequestId: ****", "error": { "message": "Request to Graph API has timed out." }, "source": "excelonline-ncus.azconn-ncus-001.p.azurewebsites.net"The Service Refresh is working fine. The Power Automate task runs after about an hour after the service refreshes the Dataset. The flow has 2 retries.
** UPDATE ** Turns out the refresh Office script is timing out due to it taking longer than the 2 minutes limit that Power Automate has for Office scripts. Changing the Timeout duration on the Run Script step does not fix this.
So knowing this, this "solution" is no longer the solution we thought it was. We need another way to do this.
** UPDATE 2 **
Turns out that I got the Power Automate to finally work! It takes about an hour and a few retries, but it finally refreshed successfully. I had to set Fixed Intervals on the Run Script Action Step, but that seemed to work. Will have to monitor the flow's performance next week. I upped the Count to 20. On the sucessful run it retried 5 times.
Hi Anonymous,
From Oct 31, 2023,
- Scheduled refresh and refresh now for existing Excel files that were previously configured for scheduled refresh will no longer be allowed.
- Local workbooks uploaded to Power BI workspaces will no longer open in Power BI.
So, you need to download the pbix file, upload it as new report where Excel sheet data will be configured as Power BI Data set. And, then have schedule refresh.