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Yael's avatar
Yael
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8 years ago

Report with excel as data set - not able to refresh

Hello,   I created a report on PBI Desktop with an excel file on share point as the data set. This excel file contailns some macros.  The first few times I opend the report, and clicked "refresh",...
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v-caliao-msft
Icon for Microsoft Employee rankMicrosoft Employee
8 years ago

Yael,

 

More so, I published the report to PBI Service, and I cannot refresh the report from there either.

Did you configure credential for your report?

 

For excel located in on-premises SharePoint site, we need to use Windows authenticaion. For Excel located in SharePoint Online, we need to use OAuth2 authentication. And to access on-premises data source, gateway is required when refreshing dataset. 

 

Reference
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/refresh-excel-file-onedrive

 

Regards,

Charlie Liao