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Refreshes In Powerbi With Button From Flow
Hi, Anonymous
When you use a button in a report to trigger a flow that refreshes a dataset, this is considered a manual refresh operation, not a scheduled refresh. Manual refreshes, including those triggered by buttons in Microsoft Power Automate, don't count toward the scheduled refresh daily limit. The difference here is between user-initiated actions and auto-scheduled refreshes that occur at a scheduled time without direct user action.
However, it's important to note that while manual refresh doesn't count toward the scheduled refresh limit, there are overall service limits and considerations to be aware of, such as API rate limits and potential resource limits for the Power BI service. These factors can affect the responsiveness and availability of manual refresh operations, especially during peak usage periods.
You can check the following links:
Understand and optimize dataflows refresh - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Data refresh in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
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Unfortunately, this is incorrect. Power Automate and Microsoft Flows use the rest API and these count toward the daily refresh limit. I have tested and confirmed this, and it is stated in several other places:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/refresh-your-power-bi-dataset-using-microsoft-flow/