I was wondering if the bookmarks captures a snapshot of the data? For example, if the datasource updates the data, will that be reflected in the bookmark or would it display the chart based on the dataset at the time the bookmark was created?
Thanks,
Derek
Power BI Embedded bookmarks, as well as Power BI bookmarks in powerbi.com, do not capture the data itself rather the visual & report configurations that manipulate the data.
Bookmarks contain visual locations & visibility, filter state & navigation between report pages.
This way you can keep the data updated and refreshable.
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I have a PowerBi Report in which i used an excel sheet to load historical data.
This historical data will not be updated and is solely used to merge with other data from SQL.
Everytime I update the new merged query my excel sheet will be updated aswell.
Is there a way to disable that? So that i can delete the excel sheet without losing the data in the PowerBI report?
So far i disabled both the load into refresh option of the historical dataset in PowerQuery but this didnt help.
Thanks in advance
There is a capability of Enable or Disable loading of a dataset into your model in Power Query on the right click menu. Is it what you are looking for ?
I have been requested to add another column in a dataflow in Power BI and have done so and refreshed the dataset which uses the dataflow. The field is not appearing in the list of fields in Power BI for some reason. I have tried downloading the dataset on my desktop and cleared the cache and did not work. I opened Power Query (Transform data) and the column exists. I've tried to refresh preview and Close and Load but still not showing. I have 3 columns in that table in Power Query but only 2 are shown in the list of Fileds in Power BI.
Please can you help?
Power BI Filed List
Power Query
I was able to sort this out by right clicking the table and selecting Refresh data
check whether the data source path is correct or not in PBI desktop [path is from your local machine or not]
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I am new to the powerbi platform and have a challenge of scoping/converting an old dashboard solution to powerbi.
The old dashboard solution is custom made and refreshes data every minute.
Powerbi lists its refresh rate for 8 times a day for Pro and 48times a day on Enterprice. Does that means there is no option to provide the same realtime (1min) updates in a dashboard using powerbi?
Can you embed iframes or anything in a powerbi dashboard?
How can you do a realtime graph in powerbi if it only refreshes 8 times a day?
Refreshing data 8/48 times a day is applicable when you import data in Power BI dataset. But if you want "more recent" data, you can connect to your data source using DirectQuery mode. DirectQuery sends queries to your data source when rendering the report. If you apply a filter, the database will get a new query, and so on. Not every data source supports DirectQuery, e.g. you can't use it for flat files (obviously). You may want to take a look at Data refresh in Power BI article.
For embedding iframes in Power BI report you can use HTML Viewer custom visual.
By default when using DirectQuery mode, tiles pinned to a dashboard refresh automatically hourly (Datasets in DirectQuery/LiveConnect mode), but you can reduce this time down to 15 minutes:
A tile is a report visual pinned to a dashboard, and dashboard tile refreshes happen about every hour so that the tiles show recent results. You can change the schedule in the dataset settings, as in the screenshot below, or force a dashboard update manually by using the Refresh Now option.
However if you want to display real-time data in Power BI dashboard, it will be better to use push or streaming datasets. With push datasets you can programatically push data to the dataset and the data will be stored and you can use them in reports. Streaming datasets are similar to push, but they will keep only the last hour of data pushed to them and can't be used in report, only pinned to a dashboard. There are also other options, like using PubNub or Microsoft Flow. For more information also take a look at Real-time streaming in Power BI.
I have a collection of .pbix models that follow a similar structure, ie, have the same tables and relationships.
It is too complex to combine them all into a single .pbix.
Is there a way to upload all these tables into a single repository, like PBI Service dataflows or a data warehouse, or something similar.
And then get the data back to PBI Desktop and perform DAX calculations, visualizations and report.
Any suggestions/ ideas?
Thank you so much for helping!
You can publish them to Power BI Service, and then create separate reports, but using these published datasets as a data source.
See Connect to datasets in the Power BI service from Power BI Desktop.
After publishing your "model" reports to Power BI Online, start making a new blank report, but instead of getting the data from files/databases/etc., choose Power BI service as a data source and select the previously published dataset. After that, you can publish your report the same way, but in this case you can share one dataset (your model) between multiple reports.
I am Using PowerBI Desktop Direct Query on SQL database
When the data is loaded into PowerBI Desktop I can see that there are certain fields missing from the table. When I view in SQL Server Manager Studio I can see the entire table.
Is there a known reason why all fields in the table would not be returned?
Check in the Query Editor window (hit Edit Queries) - steps can be added to any Query to remove columns, or specify a selected set of columns.
It could also be that the columns were added to the SQL table after the Power BI Query was built. For that scenario you just need to use Refresh Preview in the Query Editor window and they will flow through to the Power BI table.