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Anonymous
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4 years ago
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Unable to refresh PowerBI Report

unable to refresh the PowerBI report. One of my team mate have used existing report dataset to build the report. But when we tried to refresh from Desktop, it is not working. When we tried to publish...
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  • edhans's avatar
    edhans
    4 years ago

    You cannot refresh reports that are connected to datasets. They are, by definition, always refreshed. It is called a live connection. The refresh has to happen in the source dataset, then your report will always be up to date. You may need to refresh the browser to update it, but there is no dataset for you to refresh in this report. If you will notice in your PBIX file, there is no Data view. It is because there is no data. It is only in the dataset you are connected to.

  • v-xiaotang's avatar
    v-xiaotang
    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

    Are you using a data source in live connection mode? If so, 

    and you can try the 2 buttons,

     

     

    Best Regards,

    Community Support Team _Tang

    If this post helps, please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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edhans
Community Champion
4 years ago

You cannot refresh reports that are connected to datasets. They are, by definition, always refreshed. It is called a live connection. The refresh has to happen in the source dataset, then your report will always be up to date. You may need to refresh the browser to update it, but there is no dataset for you to refresh in this report. If you will notice in your PBIX file, there is no Data view. It is because there is no data. It is only in the dataset you are connected to.