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Wondering if one can do a scheduled refresh for an excel file connection?
In Power BI service, the scheduled refresh option is greyed out right now.
Hi, @DanBit
If you created your datasets and reports based on a Power BI Desktop file, Excel workbook, or comma separated value (.csv) file on OneDrive or SharePoint Online, Power BI performs another type of refresh, known as OneDrive refresh.
For reference:
Solved: Schedule refresh from a Sharepoint excel file - Microsoft Power BI Community
Refresh a dataset created from an Excel workbook - cloud - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Refresh a dataset created from an Excel workbook - local - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
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Community Support Team _Charlotte
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