I am rather new to Power BI, but I think I have a rather simple question.
Power BI is connected to Google BigQuery through import. Within PowerBI I make some transformations to create my visualisations. These visualisations create a report.
I publish the report and can then find it on https://app.powerbi.com/ in my Power BI environment.
The data in Google BigQuery is updated daily. Can I update the report online automatically without me having to press refresh in Power BI desktop? As the data gets updated automatically and I will not be changing the visualisations daily, I would think this is achievable.
If the answer is yes, how might I achieve this in the most simplest of terms?
Yes, you can. It is called scheduled refresh. After publishing your report to Power BI Service, go to Settings -> Datasets, select your dataset in the list, enter the credentials under Data source credentials section (if needed), and then configure the settings under Scheduled refresh section:
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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.
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.
Hi I have an excel which is saved in one drive for business. I update the file on daily basis with the agent name, date and no of clients handled. I have created a report with power bi file in desktop version and published it in power bi online and then created link by publish to web option. Now this link is not updated with recent data.
I tried to create the report through power bi online but it does not have options like modeling and query editor...
I am very new to power bi so kindly excuse for any errors ....
I just need to give the operations team a link to view daily performance of the team, rather than opening excel file and looking at the data.
I just need to paste the data in excel file and the report should be updated automatically ...
I have created a report with power bi file in desktop version and published it in power bi online and then created link by publish to web option.
Creating the report in Power BI Desktop is the correct first step. But if you are using Publish to Web functionality, you are publicly sharing your data in an insecure manner. Do you actually mean Publish To Web, or do you just mean that you published your report to PowerBI.com?
Now this link is not updated with recent data.
You need to set a scheduled refresh so the Power BI model will contain the latest version of the data from your Excel file. You can also manually refresh your dataset, but if you want to make sure it has the latest data every day, scheduled refresh is the way to go. Locate your dataset in PowerBI.com. There will be a scheduled refresh option. On the settings page, enter your credentials, then under scheduled refresh turn on the Keep your data up to date toggle. Choose a frequency and time.
Here is a link to make sure you connected to your file in OneDrive correctly that also mentions how to set up scheduled refresh at the bottom.
I have created a streaming+push dataset in power BI. And i push the data through the rest apis. I can see the dashboard in power BI getting updated with the latest data. But the embedded report in my website doesn't seem to update.
How can we achieve this? Is there any additional configuration required when embedding the report?
Power BI Reports hold a special property that does not allow them to refresh during viewing\editing. This is mainly to allow for presentations & editing, without having to worry about data changes.
However, one can refresh the report view in powerbi.com using the refresh button.
In Power BI Embedded, the developer can periodically call report.refresh() in the JS SDK to simulate the same action. Time intervals can be synchronized with the known realtime streaming times up to a limit.
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.