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Nikhi
Frequent Visitor
5 years ago

Power BI Dataflows not refreshing

Hi,

My dataflows stopped working all of a suuden from Friday and because of that my datasets stopped refreshing and I get DataFlowInternalerror.

 

As a test I tried adding a new dataflow using "Attach a Common data model folder" the 4th option but I get an error stating that you cannot add the CDM folder because the model definition file is not valid. I have done this so many times and it used to work perfectly fine.

 

Can someone please help with this error.

 

Regards,

Nikki

 

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  • v-henryk-mstf's avatar
    v-henryk-mstf
    Community Support
    5 years ago

    Hi Nikhi ,

     

    There are a few requirements for creating dataflows from CDM folders, as the following list describes:

    Please check if it is caused by the above reasons. link: Create a dataflow using a CDM folder

     

    Another way that we can get the CDM folder path in Dataflow settings. If you try this, you should check if the path you getting is following the steps in above document. Configure and consume a dataflow - Power BI | Microsoft Docs


    If the problem is still not resolved, please provide detailed error information and let me know immediately. Looking forward to your reply.

    Best Regards,
    Henry

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    • Nikhi's avatar
      Nikhi
      Frequent Visitor
      5 years ago

      Hi Henry,

      Thanks for your help on this.

      I followed all the above steps and still the same issue. If I remove the cdm:traits from model.json file I can create the dataflow but when refreshing it I get the same error. Also by removing the cdm:traits I can see the tables in dataflow and choose them and it fails at the point of refresh.