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onedrive refreshWITHOUT gateway
One more related question: Do you feel BI Service can model the Cloud Based Data as robustly as Desktop? Maybe that question is too open ended and relative - let's try it again:
Right now I don't think of the need to use Desktop as being due to the type data source but rather due to a need for more elaborate data modeling (Query Editory) regardless of the data source. Or to say this another way - that Service doesn't offer as comprehensive modeling. Is that much true?
So IF it a Cloud Based Data source and IF one must use Desktop to get the modeling right in order to produce the Visualizations - then it still is a little unclear to me once you move the PBI Report up to Service - - how does that refresh get automated.....
Like you i believe Desktop is needed only to do advanced modeling and to save time by accessing "local" files stored on Onedrive or elsewhere.
As to the refresh, it is true that it works well in all cases once a gateway is installed, but i would like to avaoid it since i am only using Excel files and i am still struggling to make it work.
jmdh