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Anonymous
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Issues Refreshing Dataset

Hi All!

 

I am having an issue updating my dataset in PowerBi Service from a report I made in desktop where the data will not refresh (manually or scheduled). I have to re-publish the report from desktop every time I want to refresh the data in the service. 

 

To give as much info as possible, I have an ODBC connection from Dynamics GP to Access, Access to Excel, and then Excel to Power Bi Desktop. All files are stored within my OneDrive, and I am using a personal gateway. Interestingly enough, I have another report that only uses Excel as a data source and updates just fine.

 

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

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Jroelands
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Hi hmesser,

 

Is it an option to directly connect the database to powerBI via ODBC? Why all the steps in between?

 

Kind regards,

 

Jroelands

Anonymous
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Unfortunately, no. I use Access because it has better functionality when it comes to querying data (at least in my case). I used Excel to add a calculated column because I could not figure out how to replicate the formula using DAX.

 

Thanks!

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