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Exclude from refresh certain queries from Excel files
It's the Enable Load option, disable that.
Fia123 wrote:
Hi again, I am struggling to find a solution to my problem - and hope you (or someone) have another tip :-)
I have a report with data from a Sql server and some additional static information in Excel files. I tried to set up a schedule refresh plan for the data set, but it seems hat it is not possible to combine on-premises data (Sql) with data in Excel files. If it had been possible to exclude the Excel files from the refresh plan, my problem had been solved. I tried to untagged "Include in report refresh", but it does not help. To your information I am using a data gateway.
Thanks in advance!
The option "Include in report refresh" only works in Power BI desktop.
Power BI gateway(personal mode in your case) definitely support such combined data sources. You can click "edit credential" and ensure that when using a absolute path(c:\\xxxx\xxxx\xxxx.xlsx), ensure that the gateway is on the same server, otherwise you can encounter error as below.
Hi,
My experience is that this is not possible.
If the Excel sheet containg data areas, it will always require a gateway and if it only contains data, it requires credentials, which do not exist.
My work around is to
- copy all data in the excen sheet,
- go to Power BI desktop to the Enter Data in the Home tab
- Paste the data in from the clipboard
- Name the table
Then it will be excluded from refresh
/Peik