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last time refresh
Interesting point, never thought to refresh a dashboard tile independenlty of data refresh.
The whole Dashboard and Report refresh options seem misleading. Data Refresh should be all that's required IMHO
Wyn,
Nice - I'll second this one.
My experience is that end users only care if the data is current and actionable OR if it is potentially too stale to use. Whether a tile has refreshed or not has no meaningful implication to them - and it does create confustion.
To address this, would it be worth considering this change:
1) "Refresh" should mean "source data last refreshed time".
This data already exists in the admin control panel - so it would seem possible to make it an option to show this in the tile refresh pane. If this change could be implemented, it would lead to the second issue...
2) "Source data last refreshed time" should be in the time zone of the viewer or in hours since last source data refresh.
Right now, PowerBI has an issue of reference time - source data refresh can be "last refreshed at server time" or "last refreshed local PBIX time" - depending on how it is pubished. This leads to end user confusion. If end user local time to end user is not obtainable - "source data last refreshed" might be better as a clock of hours lapsed since last successful refresh.
Thoughts?