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saidareddy_madi
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Refresh button is not working

I have created a dashboard in Power BI and embedded a refresh button in order to refresh the data whenever the business user want. This refresh button was created using power automation option in desktop. But when publish it to the power bi service port it's not working. The source for the data source for this report was share point portal.

 

Any help much appreciated. 

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Anonymous
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Hi @saidareddy_madi 
Thank you for reaching out microsoft fabric community forum.

  • When publishing to Power BI Service, you need to ensure that your Power Automate flow is connected to the published dataset in the service, not just the local version in Power BI Desktop. Open Power Automate, edit your flow, and make sure the dataset in the service is selected.
  • Your Power Automate flow must have permission to refresh the dataset in Power BI Service .Ensure your Power Automate flow uses a valid connection and has admin/editor access to the dataset.
  • Since your data source is SharePoint, Power BI Service requires valid credentials to refresh it. Go to Power BI Service → Settings → Dataset Settings and re-enter credentials for the SharePoint data source.
  • Even though you're using a manual refresh button, your dataset should have at least one scheduled refresh in Power BI Service. Enable Scheduled Refresh in Power BI Service to avoid permission issues.

    If this solution helps, please consider giving us Kudos and accepting it as the solution so that it may assist other members in the community.

    Thank you.

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @saidareddy_madi 
Thank you for reaching out microsoft fabric community forum.

  • When publishing to Power BI Service, you need to ensure that your Power Automate flow is connected to the published dataset in the service, not just the local version in Power BI Desktop. Open Power Automate, edit your flow, and make sure the dataset in the service is selected.
  • Your Power Automate flow must have permission to refresh the dataset in Power BI Service .Ensure your Power Automate flow uses a valid connection and has admin/editor access to the dataset.
  • Since your data source is SharePoint, Power BI Service requires valid credentials to refresh it. Go to Power BI Service → Settings → Dataset Settings and re-enter credentials for the SharePoint data source.
  • Even though you're using a manual refresh button, your dataset should have at least one scheduled refresh in Power BI Service. Enable Scheduled Refresh in Power BI Service to avoid permission issues.

    If this solution helps, please consider giving us Kudos and accepting it as the solution so that it may assist other members in the community.

    Thank you.

 

saidareddy_madi
Regular Visitor

Thanks for your reply. exactly followed the same steps as mentioned in that video but still not working, not sure is there any check point am missing. 

Idrissshatila
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Hello @saidareddy_madi,

 

did you create a power automate flow to do the refresh ?

 

check this out https://youtu.be/-8NlEeIIRiQ?si=lsmJ7wCDWWgNSm0C

 



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Thanks for your reply. exactly followed the same steps as mentioned in that video but still not working, not sure is there any check point am missing. 

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