hope anyone can help me.
I tried now several times to import my first Power BI model into AZURE Analysis Services. I went through the steps as described by the AZURE team. After I've chosen the right server and the model as PBIX file from my local drive and clicked on import, the following happens:
1. It is running for several minutes.
2. After several minutes it stops without any message or anything similar. The model is afterwards not in AZURE Analysis service.
I tried it now 4 times without any success.
Has anyone made the same experiences? Does anyone know a solution for that?
thanks and br
Christoph
There is a fairly short time-out on the import option for Azure Analysis Services. If it is a large model, I typically:
Export model as a template (pbit)
Open PBIT, and select edit instead of load.
Save new pbix without applying changes or refreshing data.
This new pbix should be small enough to import as long as there aren't any other issues with the dataset.
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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!
This monday I installed my Power Bi gateway which is connected to my local drive (C:/). I uploaded my online PowerBi analysis on microsoft sharepoint. Everything works perfectly.
My next step is to install the gateway for my network drive because that way my PC doesn't have to run once the autorefresh is supposed to refresh. I have a problem, I can't get the gateway on my network drive. Someone else already asked this question on stack overflow but there where no answers, that's why I want to ask it again.
I can change the path of my Power Bi analysis to my network drive and I can also upload the files to app.powerbi.com, that's not the problem.
If you have questions don't bother asking.
I hope to hear from you soon.
I had 2x reports using Gateway where 1x would not connect to my work's network. The other report ok. I re-confirmed credentials and access rights and all were ok. Therefore, it was a problem with the 1x report somehow. I then gradually stripped my report down and eventually found the problem. It also used a SharePoint Excel file to obtain some data, it was having this SharePoint file along with a network data source that caused the problem. As soon as I removed the SharePoint link, everything worked ok! This is annoying because the spreadsheet was far more accessible via SharePoint. The best debug you can do is to 1) check you data source settings and ensure you're logged on to all of them, 2) strip your report back until it works, 3) create a super-basic report by grabbing one data source from your network and using a basic table to display contents.
Is there still no way for Power BI Desktop to automatically refresh data without publishing pbix to Power BI Service? Due to threat of private information leakage, we want to maintain our data only via Power BI Desktop (not using Power BI Service first). We have been looking for ways on how to work around the automatic refresh in PBI Desktop for over a day already but all pointing us to publishing pbix to Power BI Service, which will allow us to schedule the refresh after. Any feedback will be much appreciated.
Thank you!
There is no supported way to do this. The easiest workaround is to teach your users to click on Refresh button. Second easiest thing could be to use DirectQuery instead of import mode.
There are some attempts for workarounds from the community, but you should use them with caution:
PBIXRefresher and pbixrefresher-python scripts by Michal Dúbravčík
Write some code that starts opens the .pbix file in Power BI Desktop, finds its PID, then finds the port on which the child Tabular process listen and use Tabular Object Model (TOM) to refresh it
Use Power Update (paid) tool
But leaving workarounds aside, Power BI is compliant with a lot of security standards. Data leaks of data from the cloud in most (all?) of the cases will be caused by a human factors, which is also possible with on-premise data. But if it is a no-go for your organisation, then either use Power BI Server on-premise, or another reporting tool (e.g. SSRS).
There is no way to automate the refresh in PowerBI desktop. You have to manually click the refresh button. Many organisations trust PowerBI Service with their data. However, in the case that you have some serious data residence restrictions, then you can deploy PowerBI Report Server on premises and publish to this without your data leaving your network.
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
g
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.