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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.
Alan_ , That looks like its from Power BI Desktop. I'm talking about from Excel itself. Mine looks like this when I'm rebuilding a report and choosing the Power BI Dataset:
When you click on it, a Pivot Table is automatically created.
It's Excel. Steps are:
1. Data tab
2. Get Data dropdown
3. From Power Platform
4. From Power BI
5. Side pane opens where I can search for a dataset
Could be you may need to update Excel?
I'm running 365 version 2309