Am pulling multiple fields into PowerApps from PowerBI via the PowerBIIntegration.Data.(Value) connection.
I realised after designing the whole app that I was calling a 'Count' summary rather an 'Average' summary of the metric I wanted. Having modified this, I can no longer retrieve that data - the connection seems to be broken.
Previously on a separate occassion, I added a field in PowerBI after finishing the app, and again, I could not retrieve the field in PowerApps, I could only retrieve the initial fields I had added. It seems as if there is a snapshot of fields when you first make the app, and this can't be modified.
I don't want to rebuild the app a third time if I don't have to!
Is there a way to refresh this?
Yep, I have tried PowerBIIntegration.Refresh().
Thanks!
Solved this issue.
Publish the dashboard to the PowerBI service with the new fields.
Click the 3 dots in the top corner of the PowerApp and click edit.
This will take you to the browser/development space for the app.
New/updated/renamed fields are now included/reflected.
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I have a Power-BI dashboard that was created some time ago. It’s data source is a SharePoint-Online list. Since the Power-BI dashboard was created, several new fields have been added to the SharePoint list. Now I am being asked to add a new page to the dashboard that reports on those new fields. However, I have not found a way to get the existing Power-BI list/dataset to show the new fields.
Refreshing the data does refresh the values, but refresh does not add the new fields.
I’ve spend the last 4 hours looking on the internet for a solution. The only thing I have been able to do so far is to attach the list again with a different name- the new fields DO show up when I do this. (I can’t just replace the older Power-BI list/dataset because there have been several calculated columns and measures added.)
I can work with this and create the report, but is this the only way? It doesn’t seem like it should be.
Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
(I'm using Power BI April 2021 and Sharepoint Online)
So, it looks like there's no good answer to this issue. I found that adding another instance of the reference Sharepoint list, that included the new columns, did work (however inelegant). That seems to be the best direct answer for times when the older pbix file must continue to be used.
What I ended up doing, though, was to create a new separate pbix file which included the latest version of the Sharepoint List. This was the best solution for my organization since it will allow us to be more focused on the specific manufacturing processes involved.
Thanks to #Jon and #Alejandro for their efforts to help!
If you have access to PowerAutomate you could refresh the dataset creating a flow so that given a certain time (say, once or twice a day) the dataset gets refreshed with the new created items.
Otherwise if you are working with the service version of Power BI you can program a refresh of the dataset directly from the workspace going to the settings of the dataset. You would have to have a gateway set for that which could be in personal mode or not.
Also if you want to update the data in the service version you could do it manually too in the workspace.
I am working on the reporting project that uses PowerBI as the data visualization tool.
I need create a processing approval workflow on the PowerBI tool. After seeing the Dashboard, the employer can approve some exception cases and the workflow can direct connect with email or ticket system.
There are 2 cases:
Approve for the whole dashboard that supports to be easy. I don't have any problem here.
Approve for singular object/row in a table chart. So I must generate number of buttons according to the number of row, which I need help. I don't know how to generate dynamic number of buttons and attached to row. And how to program/code it to create a view or action to become an approval step.
Button PowerBI
In this screenshot, my plan is create buttons in each row and each button has the same function with parameter is username or IP. And after that I can send email to the user and notice him/her that his/her case is approve for exception.
I find this https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/A-simple-and-fun-guide-to-Microsoft-Flow-and-Power-BI/ba-p/151530. But it doesn't seem helpful. Anyone here has ever dealt with approval case like this.
Is PowerBI able to do the approval process like I want?
Thank you so much.
First: This kind of goes against the spirit of BI in general. BI is for data visualization, exploration, etc. It's not really a UI for inserting data and executing tasks. Maybe you want instead to have a front end that lets you do things, and only needs to handle a very limited dataset? PowerApps is good for that. If the dataset is less than 1000 rows, this could work.
Second: I'm pretty sure it's not possible to create a button (like one that you'd see in an HTML page) that does what you want it to do in a Power BI table visual.
Third: There is a "drill through" button capability, but this just lets you navigate from one area in the report to another, not send an email or execute a Power Automate flow or anything like that. You may have seen a button on a table visual, but it's misleading. It's not really programmable like an HTML/JS button on a website.
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/create-a-drill-through-button-in-power-bi/
That said, within the last 1.5 years or so, we now have the PowerApps add-in available. You could create an app that utilizes your streaming dataset, create a gallery that looks at that dataset and creates a kind of table with buttons on it, and then each button is set to execute the flow you've created in Power Automate.
PowerApp Add in chiclet
All of this is very, extremely straightforward, but beware, the PowerApp will start to cost you extra money depending on where your data is housed. If it's a SQL server, you'll need both a premium PowerApp license and Power Automate license too.
Sorry for the not so great news, but this is kind of a limitation of Power BI.
I have uploaded a report to PBI Cloud with several bookmarks and different data models like tables and different charts. Now I made some changes to this report and published it by replacing the existing one. Some charts were deleted and some new were newly added. When navigating directly to the report in PBI cloud I can see the changes. But the changes are not applied for the App which is connected with that report.
Is there any further step needed to perform so that the models in the PBI Cloud "App" get also updated?
In the workspace there is an Update app button, that you need to click,
This will take you through the process of republishing the app
I am trying to set a default selected item in a semantic-ui-react dropdown. If I select an item from the dropdown, when I reopen the dropdown it opens on the correct item. However, this item is persisted, and when I refresh the page, the correct items are displayed on the dropdown, but it does not open on the correct item.
Please advise.
Matt, it sounds like you are only using the internal component state. Whatever your components initialize with, they will always start that same way. Your entire React application works this way. If you are expecting your data to be persistent, it needs to be stored somewhere. When you refresh you are starting over again. If the state of your application is not being put elsewhere, you lose that state every single time you refresh because the only copy of state is in your client browser.
Basically you currently only have a frontend application that is not storing data anywhere. Depending on your needs, you could do this in a lot of different ways. A REST API. A GraphQL API. One simple way to accomplish this if you are just creating a simple website would be to use a headless CMS. That will give you a database to store your application data. There are a lot of interesting ones out there that you can explore based on your needs.
I am using Power BI API.
I've got a dataset with some tables and rows.
From Power BI API Console I don't have any issue when retrieving datasets or tables.
However the PUT verb on a table resource to update its schema always returns a 504 - Proxy request timed out
It's the first time I use Apiary IO so it might be its problem and not Power BI update, but that leads me to some questions:
Is there any workaround to test Power BI with, for example, Fiddler? I can type the url and body but I will need an Authorization header with the OAuth2 token if I'm not mistaken. How can I get that? ApiaryIO seems to hide it.
As per Update Schema Documentation the URL with the resource is https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/datasets/{myDatasetId}/tables/{myTableName}
and the verb is a PUT. What is then the meaning of the "name": "???" parameter that goes in the JSON body? Is it the table's name or something else? I am assuming it's the table name but it seems redundant as I am already accessing the resource {myTableName} as per the given URL.
And my last related question is how to rename a specific table's column without modifying its data? This is what I'm trying to achieve by updating the schema but I don't understand how does Power BI know what column I am trying to rename.
Thank you!
Sorry that you're having trouble. You can get a token in two ways -the right way is to create an app in AAD (here's how). The wrong way ;) is to open the Power BI.com service, in a browser then open fiddler, then press F5 to reload. You should be able to see the Access Token in various requests. If you register an app, you can plug in your App's information in one of the samples we have https://powerbi.microsoft.com/developers, see client app or web app.
The name you provide in the table is the friendly human readable name that appears in the UI when you're building a report. Without it the system is unusable by humans :).
Let me get back to you on #3.
Calling PUT table will attempt to save upgrade the table without loosing any data (unless you removed columns). If it can't, it will return a conflict error. If you still want to update the table schema, you would have to delete the rows and call PUT table again. There is currently no direct way to rename a column. PUT table would treat it like a delete and add for that column. You would loose the data in that column but not the whole table.