I have scheduled 8 refreshes in Power BI for a day for 7 dashboards. But i found out that one of the dashboards is not updating its values. That particular dashboard only refreshes if refresh now option is clicked. Also the schedule refresh option is disabled automatically every day.
Just sharing my learning on the same issue. I have just found out through technical support that schedule refresh will turn off automatically after 4 refresh fails.
I couldn't find the reason because my schedule was being turned off randomly. So it seems that's the reason. I have few sources connected and every time one is down my refresh fails.
You need to troubleshoot why your one dashboard refresh is failing. Follow the steps recommended here:
Go to the Power Bi Web Portal and browse to the location of your dashboard.
Right click on the the three dots and select Manage
In the left menu select "Scheduled Refresh" tab (see left red circle in image)
The rightmost column Status will contain any error that was occurred (see right circle from above image).
The documentation on configuring Scheduled Refresh can be a good place to find a solution to the cause of your problems as well as this scheduled refresh troubleshooting guide. Without the error, we can only guess that its an authentication error, problem with data source, gateway, drivers, memory, etc.
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My organization recently publish a PowerBI dashboard via the Publish to Web and an embed code. We have configured a daily refresh via a gateway running on a virtual machine that's always on. The data refreshes automatically daily. This is all successful and works well.
The issue we are running into is that the data seems to update incrementally on the embedded version. For example, data in one tab will update to the most current data, while changing a slicer selection will continue to display the previous day's data.
This is incredibly confusing, especially as it's a publish facing dashboard.
Is there a way to resolve this?
Thanks!
I have been using Power BI to connect to Google Analytics now for several months,however in the last month all of my reports are failing with the following error:
"GoogleAnalytics: Request failed (403): Quota exceeded for quota group 'default' and limit 'Queries per 100 seconds' of service 'analytics.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:664933364861'. Table: xxxxxxxxxxxx"
This has never been an issue before, and no new reports have been created, so I'm puzzled as to why it is happening.
I went onto the Google Developer Console, and under the Analytics Reporting API, I can't see any data at all so I can't actually see how far over the quota I am going (if that is indeed the issue)
I have amended the quotas to the highest values allowed, and still get the same error when refreshing.
Does anyone have any advice that may be able to point me in the right direction please?
This has been happening to me for a while. Goes away for a bit and then comes back. It's happening to quite a few people.
See https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/Google-Analytics-API-Error/idi-p/893610
Power bi's connector for google analytics has its issues, such as sampling and API Calls limit.
You might be better off, connecting Google Analytics with Google BigQuery and then to Power bi.
We are publishing our powerbi reports embedded into a website with a PowerBI Premium Plan. All our analytic visualizations are on PowerBI but we are in troubles to offer some user interactions through the interface.
Specifically, we want to confirm some events pressing a button which is located on the same powerbi in order to call a backend API through a Javascript.
Fortunately, we've figured out how to solve this problem and our button is updating our database. But we couldn't solve the problem associated with limitations about numbers of requests to the power bi service. It is said that there is a limit of one request every 15 seconds. So, we have to wait 15 seconds to press the button again. Nobody will want to wait more than a few seconds to interact again with the button.
We've used the last example as is described in the following URL:
Embedding Basic interactions
Someone has experience with this kind of interactions on PowerBI? I find it a little strange, I do not find any information about this limitation on the Microsoft website
Here an example of the exception:
You are using PowerBI Embedded. This is a service from Microsoft where you pay for a certain amount of processing power. When you go over this processing power, PowerBI will return an error.
A capacity calculator is available to see how much processing power you would need. You can find it on the Microsoft website.
I'm not sure what you're using this functionality for. You say you use the button to "confirm some events" which suggests that the PowerBI solution is part of an interactive application. Do remember that PowerBI is an analytics platform and as such not really suited for real-time interaction. If this is the case I would strongly advise finding a different solution since higher-tier PowerBI embedded licenses are very expensive (and still won't guarantee that no error will be generated)
I installed Power BI Gateway in order to use SQL directly in my Dashboard. I published the report and found that none of my colleagues could view it without a Pro License. I tried everything but can't get rid of the so called "power BI pro content" in my dashboard.
So I uninstalled the gateway software and reinstalled Power BI.
I tested by creating a very basic report with one line chart linking to excel. Even this report can't be viewed by my colleagues because "it contains pro content".
As it turns out, ALL dashboards (even created by my colleagues) give this warning when I try to share it.
This is driving me nuts. Please can someone help.
thanks
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The documentation for what counts as Power BI Pro content is here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-power-bi-pro-content-what-is-it/
Some key tripping points: anything with a scheduled refresh that uses a gateway, or that refreshes more than daily counts as Pro. Anything posted to a group workspace or shared via an organizational content pack count as Pro too.
Bear in mind that a dashboard only needs one tile from a "Pro" report to be considered Pro.
In an enterprise setting, where your data is coming from SQL on-premises, it'd be hard to avoid pro content. Your data would have to be imported into Power BI Desktop, and refreshed & republished manually. You couldn't use direct query mode, a gateway, automatic refresh, group workspaces, or organizational content packs.
It's hard to comment specifically on why your very basic Excel report contains pro content. If you're sure it doesn't meet any of the documented reasons, click the Smile at the top-right of PowerBI.com and Submit an Issue. Microsoft should be able to tell you.
Note: What makes content pro could easily change in the future, so although I highlighted some common tripping points, I do recommend referring to the linked documentation for the definitive answer.
As I know Power BI caches the report definition and the results of the queries required to view the report.
It can take approximately one hour before changes are reflected in the version of the report viewed by your users.
Could this interval be decrease? Or could the caching be turned off?
Please help!
Publish to web is designed for internet scale. If you're looking to target internal users or as part of an application, you can use one of the authenticated embedding options -there's no cache there. Take a look at my answer here for a review of those options:
How to Pass a URL Filter to a Power BI Publish to Web Report
We are working on making the cache update time fast for report metadata. Essentially if you save the file in our service, the changes to the report definition will be updated immediately.
Any more details on your scenario would be helpful.