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dan_hoff
Helper I
9 years ago
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Sharepoint CSV auto refresh does not work

I have been using Power BI for about 6 months.  I recently migrated my data sources from onedrive to sharepoint.  XLXSd to CSV files.   The CSV data sources NEVER update automatically based on chan...
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    v-haibl-msft
    9 years ago

    dan_hoff

     

    The public info should guide us to get data in Power BI Service directly as below. In this way, we do not need to schedule refreshes.

     

    If we follow the steps mentioned in this document to get data from the csv file stored in SharePoint with Power BI Desktop. We need to schedule refresh after we publish the report to Power BI Service.

     

    Best Regards,
    Herbert

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LuteceFalco
Helper II
9 years ago

HI dan_hoff,

 

I don't know if this can help you to see why it's doesn't working for you, OneDrive is Cloud like SharePoint, but PBI doesn't consider SharePoint as a Cloud, or it's only for Cloud like OneDirve is, that schedule refresh is automaticaly set and refreshed, and not for SharePoint, for which you need to set Schedule Refresh.

I don't know why it's like that, but for me, yeah it's dumb / for the moment I don't know why it's like that, maybe sombody can explain us here :) /. 

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dan_hoff
Helper I
9 years ago

Thanks Lutece for also confirming all this.  I can live with it, as long as I know.  I wish MS was more clear.  I spent a lot of time testing various scenarios.