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Jeanxyz
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4 years ago
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what does the refresh button do in Power BI Service

I'm wondering what the refresh button does in Power BI Service. I have the impression that sometimes  the refresh button manges to query source data and updates charts if there are changes in my sour...
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    otravers
    4 years ago

    Are you talking about the Refresh button in the report toolbar? This button does not refresh data from the source, it merely refreshes visuals based on the latest data in the report's dataset.

     

     

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otravers
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4 years ago

Are you talking about the Refresh button in the report toolbar? This button does not refresh data from the source, it merely refreshes visuals based on the latest data in the report's dataset.

 

 

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Jeanxyz
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4 years ago

Thank you for the clarfication. I found detailed explanation on data refresh from MS site. 

 

In Power BI Desktop, refresh of report visuals, data refresh, and schema refresh all happen together using

  1. Home ribbon > Refresh button
  2. Home ribbon > Transform data > Close & Apply button
  3. The context menu (right-click or click on ellipsis) on any table then choosing Refresh data

In PB Serverice, data refresh takes place in the following cases

  1. Scheduled refresh
  2. Refresh now
  3. Refresh a Power BI dataset from Power Automate
  4. Processing the table from SQL Server Management Studio (Premium)

Detailed documentation on data refresh in Power BI:

Data refresh in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs