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Report only refresh by on-demand data refresh
HI Ecosurety_BI ,
I'm not so recommend you to upload your pbix file to onedrive and use power bi to get data.
After your steps, report dataset will handle by onedrive refresh, but onedrive refresh not triggered when datasource who used to create pbix report refreshed.
It need you to manually upload new version pbix file to replace old one to active refresh. (pbix file not able to auto updated)
Use OneDrive for Business links in Power BI Desktop
In addition, you can also open a support ticket to get better support for power bi team.(it is free to pro and above licenses)
submit a support ticket
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
Hi,
Sorry but although I am not speaking English natively I find it fairly difficult to understand what you are trying to convey with this answer.
As I mentioned above, I managed to sort it with the steps I listed.
The workflow on how to get a PowerBi slide loaded to the cloud service to auto update is mired in confusion and it is convoluted to say the least.
I will try to list here what I think you are trying to say, so please correct me if I am wrong:
To get a OD refresh to work 'out of the box' one should load a PBIX that doesn't have a data source bundled with it.
Once you upload you can connect it to a data source residing in on OneDrive without needing to do much more.
What is working for me is to use the 'get data' option to import a pbix that has a data source bundled or 'connected' to (OD file link is copied to the data source section as 'web'), then set the permissions and switch on the 'sheduled refresh' (OD hourly refresh is already switched on), not doing the last step doesn't refresh the data set.
I wish there was a comprehansive guide to Pbi in plain English.