Measure doesn't work when Data Set Refreshes

[abarnett]

Hello! I have a measure that on desktop, works great. When I publish to service, everything also works great. But when the data refreshs on the service, through the on-demand refresh the measure doesn't work. Nothing shows up in the visuals. Can anyone help? Is it because I need to wait? or..

[GilbertQ]

Hi there

Could I ask you to make sure that you have set the Reset to default button after the dataset refresh?

You can also have a look at the Filters on your visual to see what is filtering the visual which could possibly be filtering something out as shown below.

[abarnett]

@GilbertQ  Thank you for the reply! Although the recommendations weren't the cause. One of the pages doesn't have filters, and I pressed the reset to default button and that didn't help either. Not sure what else to do.

[GilbertQ]

Hi there

There must be something when it is being updated that is causing the change.

Are there any parameters in your PBIX?

[abarnett]

@GilbertQ  Nope no Parameters, double chekced to be sure. 

[GilbertQ]

Hmmm I am not sure what else could be affecting the change then.

The only thing I could think of is once it has refreshed on the Power BI Service, if you download that version of the PBIX and compare the differences between the 2 PBIX files?

[abarnett]

@GilbertQ  It seems a custom column's data disapears once the refresh happens, do you think this would happen with a calculated column?

[GilbertQ]

That should not happen on a calculated column

I would suggest always creating the column in the Query editor, it allows for better compression and faster refreshes.

[abarnett]

@GilbertQ  I prefer creating it in the Query too..but this is where it is already and for some reason the refresh is erasing that data.

[GilbertQ]

Hi there

The refresh will only apply the steps that it has in the PBIX, I have never seen anything deleted by the refresh process.

I would suggest comparing the PBIX files to see the difference.

[abarnett]

I didn't do anything but the issue is now resolved for some reason.

[GilbertQ]

That is really interesting, glad that it now is working!