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Excel Datamodel scheduled refresh

I know that changes are coming that are going to affect Excel Scheduled refreshes.   I have a few questions on this since we use this feature a lot at our corporate location.   If all of the Exce...
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    2 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.

     

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2 years ago

Powerbyosh , Its currently working as it always has, but after the end of the month that will stop.  Also you can't load anything new to the Service.

Other than the post from Alan_, I haven't found a solution.  The issue is that after the Power BI Dataset it refreshed, Excel will not pull in the changes from the Service.

Alan_'s option might work....I can schedule the refresh on the Service, and then use Power Automate the refresh.  The Office Script for "RefreshAll Data Connections" only works with Power BI Data Sets currently so will need to rebuild and apply Office Scripts is probably the answer.