Power BI Service - influence of setting a subscription on a semantic model refresh

[Okta]

Hello, in the documentation there is information regarding a subscription in the "Considerations and limitations" chapter (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/end-user-subscribe?tabs=creator#conside...😞

Power BI automatically pauses refresh on semantic models associated with dashboards and reports that aren't visited in more than two months. However, if you add a subscription to a dashboard or report, it doesn't pause even if it goes unvisited.

Does it mean that when I turn on the subsctiption the semantic model will be always refreshed?

Or that semantic model won't be refreshed and the subscription will contain not updated data?

Thanks in advance for your help

[Okta]

Thank you!

[Idrissshatila · Accepted solution]

Hello @Okta ,

the thing is that when you schedule a refresh, it refreshes as per the set schedule, but if there's no activity on the report for two months, the schedule refresh will stop, unless there's a subscription that is running on the report thus the schedule refresh won't stop although there's no user viewing it.