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Power BI Dataset Refresh Disabled Due to Inactivity But Used Daily from Excel
Hello All! We have a dataset published to the Service that is refreshed within multiple Excel files daily. However, the BI dataset refresh is getting disabled "due to inactivity." Does it not rec...
Anonymous , no the reporting/usage is occuring in Excel, pulling from a Power BI Dataset. The BI dataset refreshes daily in the morning with our ETL, then users open their independent Excel files, click "refresh" (pulling from the refreshed Power BI Dataset) and go about their work in the files.
Hi Anonymous ,
Does your workspace only have the dataset and not the report created from it? Contact ETL to create a report or dashboard based on that dataset, then access it (report or dashboard) to restore the dataset refresh.
Best Regards,
Neeko Tang
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