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Refresh single partition in a Dataflow using REST API

Hi everyone, I am currently trying to do an incremental historical load of an entity in a dataflow using the REST API. 

The query in the dataflow uses a NativeQuery. I would like to avoid loading the full history at once, so I am trying the following method (currently testing out with dummy data):

 

- write out the query as a native query and specify "WHERE 1 = 0" in the sql so that no rows are loaded.

-refresh the dataflow with an incremental refresh policy defined, so that partitions are created with no rows

-reopen the dataflow and change the native query to "WHERE 1 = 1"

-save the dataflow, but don't refresh it so that no data is loaded.

-use the REST API to refresh an individual partition and repeat until I have loaded all the partitions necessary

 

In the microsoft interface, I am trying to call the REST API like so:

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However, when I check the refresh history, all of the partitions get populated instead of just the one I specify (Nov 4th in the example above). Just wondering if the issue is with the parameters I am sending to the REST API or if there is a problem with my method?

 

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Just noticed that the Enhanced refresh with the Power BI REST API - Power BI | Microsoft Learn seems to be referring to Datasets only. It seems like the only configurable parameter for a dataflow refresh is whether an email notification is delivered on failure or not.

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