Can I use Power Automate for Direct Query data refresh in Power BI?
Will it be faster than the Enterprise Gateway Direct Query Connection?
For direct query you don't need to have any power automate flow to refresh the data,
if your dataset is connected to the gateway then it will automatically get the latest data whenever the user interact with the report.
Data refresh required if you have import mode
FYI, even if you use power automate the refresh the data it happens via gateway itself, so pls go ahead with the regular process.
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My business doesn't like using Direct Query. They believe in putting all data in to Power BI via the 'Import' option. This means that whenever our team wants to refresh the data in a Power Bi dashboard, they must:
Download the .pbix file from the SharePoint where they're published.
Open that file in Power BI desktop.
Click to refresh the data from our SQL server.
Re-publish the dashboard.
This has to be done for every single dashboard that we have. This is plainly absurd.
Can either Power Apps or Power Automate be used to refresh several dashboards at once? I don't know what licensing I have for Power Apps, but when I went through the list of connections that the web version let me use, I saw no options for Power BI. As for Power Automate, I saw no way to access my dashboards.
If your data is hosted in your internal network, you need to install the Data Gateway on a machine in your network. You can then use that data gateway for scheduled refresh and don't need to download/refres/upload the pbix file.
The Data Gateway is a free download. You can find links to that in the menus of the Power BI online interface.
I am working on a power bi report which is embedded in a portal. I need to display live GPS live locations of vehicles in a MAP based on a company that user has access to in the portal. basically every user will have a company associated to them and I'll use rowlevelsecurity for doing this.
A third party application will give access to live streaming data through a API. Is it possible to connect to a third party application API from power bi and show gps locations? If it is possible, how can I do it? I am totally new to this. please help me with any documents/scripts. We have power bi pro license.
For your use case you will not be able to do it all in Power BI, you'll need to push the streaming data to some sort of database, Azure SQL Server/Azure Cosmos DB/Azure Databricks using Event Hubs and maybe Streaming Analytics as well. So for example your stream sends the data to the event hub endpoint, then sends it to a database, then Power BI reads it.
You can then link a Power BI report to that database and set it up in Direct Query mode, and then set the page refresh on the report. Depending on the type of service your period of refresh for none Embedded/Premium workspaces will be 30mins or more, and not 'realtime'
Why Power BI service does not refresh data automatically. The forums mention that with Power BI Pro license allows to schedule refresh 8 times and Power BI Premium allows us to schedule refresh with a higher frequency. There is always an option to manually refresh the dataset/dashboard.
Does that mean Power BI does not provide the ability for live reporting.
We are not sure when was the last update for the dashboard.
Please suggest if we have some workaround. Iam using web api as data source.
Real-time reports are possible with push or streaming datasets.
DirectQuery is another possibility for frequently changing data.
What's your connection ? DirectQuery or import in your current report ?
Schedule refresh for your dashboard does not mean your data will refresh, you have to refresh your dataset also, and depending your source if you are using dataflows it will refresh your last dataset update. I'll suggest you to check out guy in the cube channel on youtube.
I was able to refresh a power BI report using the desktop application. But when I am trying to schedule a refresh using the web application I am getting the following error.
I am getting data using the web source. I am using functions in the connection string. Is there a way I can schedule refresh in this case.
The maximum size for datasets imported into the Power BI service is 1 GB and Power BI Service places a limit on the amount of uncompressed data that is processed during refresh to 10 GB.
If you still hit the above two limitations, you are not able to refresh dataset in Power BI Service. You can use DirectQuery/Live connection mode to connect to your data source instead, or purchase Power BI Premium license to solve this issue.
You can also try to solve the issue by creating a view of the table within the source database
References:
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/report-server/scheduled-refresh
How can you do writeback in Power BI?
Does Power BI also support writeback like Microstrategy?
I couldn't find any solution from PowerBI. I saw a workaround using PowerApps, where they created a PowerApp and embedded that in PowerBI and used Flow to automate the task to write back into databases, but it is not so feasible.
Are there any other working solutions?
There isn't any official way to write-back.
You can do the same approach as PowerApp visuals do. In your custom visual, you can trigger an action to writes back to your SQL DB or whatever other source you have, e.g. Push Data Rows or refresh.
You can also trigger a 'Refresh Now' call via Power BI REST APIs to update your dataset from the DB.
If you're in embed mode, there is also a JS SDK call to refresh() the view such that the visuals will now display the new data.
See what PowerOn does in a similar manner.