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1 year ago
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Updating Power BI Dataset After Adding a New Column in Dataflow

Hello everyone,   I’m facing an issue with my Power BI setup and I hope someone can help me out. Here’s the situation: I have a dataset in Power BI that pulls data from a dataflow, which in turn g...
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    lbendlin
    1 year ago
    However, I’m struggling to figure out how to make the dataset reflect this new field without having to refresh it in Power BI Desktop.

    Your only other option is to use ALM Toolkit but I am not sure it will actually pick that change up.

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1 year ago

Hi, thanks for your reply.

I will try with ALM Toolkit. Although I think that the metadata of the dataset that has incremental refresh cannot be modified from the service, I understand that it is not a rare case that I am raising, and a tool like Power BI should be able to do it.

 

Thanks 🙂

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lbendlin
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1 year ago
 I think that the metadata of the dataset that has incremental refresh cannot be modified from the service

who says that?  You can use the XMLA endpoints to push the meta data changes. ALM Toolkit makes that (relatively) convenient.

 

a tool like Power BI should be able to do it.

Your scenario is far beyond the standard Power BI functionality. Way too dangerous to include in a standard tool.