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samdthompson
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11 years ago
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dashboard not updating

I built a simple PBI model as a demonstration. Excel table to PBI desktop, desktop to PBI web and PBI web to OS app.   The problem I have is the couple of charts I built and pinned to the dashboard...
  • samdthompson's avatar
    samdthompson
    11 years ago

    Oh wow, that would be a massive problem. Why would you want a mobile dashboard that needed to be manually rebuilt each refresh period?

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    samdthompson
    11 years ago

    good to hear its a problem to be solved rather than a limitation. i might try a complete rebuild and see if that fixes things <sigh>

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Greg_Deckler
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11 years ago

I *believe* from my testing that the Dashboard is kind of independent from the Reports so, no, clicking some slicers on a report is not going to change the dashboard. The dashboard will display the visualization as it existed at the time it was pinned in terms of slicer selections etc. but it will not dynamically change. In fact, in my experience while it shows on the dashboard as of the "point in time it was pinned", if you click it, it will go back to the report by default without the correct slicers selected, they appear as the report default selections (at time of upload). :(

 

Somebody correct me if I am completely off-base and wrong here.

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samdthompson
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11 years ago

Oh wow, that would be a massive problem. Why would you want a mobile dashboard that needed to be manually rebuilt each refresh period?

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    Greg_Deckler
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    11 years ago

    Well, the dashboard will reflect current data but not changes to a report. So, if you update your data, the dashboard will reflect that in the context of the visualization at the time of pinning. 

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      samdthompson
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      11 years ago

      But if you hoped to have a dashboard for say hourly plant performance or even daily sales, available to users on their phones, the dashboard data would need to be rebuilt each time?

       

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        Greg_Deckler
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        11 years ago

        Refreshed. So, data sources create data sets that then provide tables and fields for building reports. Report visualizations are pinned to a dashboard and users can interact with dashboards and reports. When the data sources are refreshed, the reports and dashboards display the updated data.

         

        So lets say that your hourly plant data has some metric that calculates some kpi. That kpi is reflected on a dashboard. When the data refreshes, that kpi reflects the latest data.

         

        I hope I am explaining this satisfactorially. If you give me some sample data and an idea of what you are trying to achieve, perhaps I can walk you through accomplishing what you are trying to do.