I have developed several reports in power bi desktop and published them to PowerBi.com. These reports are refreshed on daily basis manually. Is there any way that I can refresh the power bi desktop file i.e. .pibx file programmatically or can schedule it ?
I would install and configure the Power BI Gateway - Personal for this. It supports scheduled refresh (up to 8 times per day). It requires a Power BI Pro license.
Here's the details:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-personal-gateway/
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I am using Sharepoint List and OData Feed for my Power BI reports using import. What I want to accomplish is that my power bi desktop to get updated data and publish to power bi service even if I'm not around. Is it possible? I have a colleague who can refresh it for me but the logic is that he'll be creating a new power bi project service (I think).
You cannot schedule a report to refresh in Power BI Desktop, you have to do it via a manual process.
You will need to publish the report to the Power BI Service, you can then set a refresh schedule there and the report will refresh automatically from your data source. You will not have to recreate the report or upload it again one it is there.
First publish your Power BI desktop to Power BI Services, which will enable auto refresh.
Power BI has direct connectors for SharePoint so you can set schedule auto refresh. And for connecting SharePoint OnPrem you can use Data connectors.
I have created a report in power Bi desktop and in that report i have imported data from Log analytics in Azure, using exported m-language queries for each table.
Is there any way to set the refresh rate for each table/data set or something a like? I want the report to display some what live data.
EDIT:
Power bi desktop is a business intelligence tool, and reports in Power BI can be refreshed manual, or scheduled in power BI service.
Once you publish to powerbi.com you can setup the refresh frequency based on your source files.
premium capacity
When using PowerBI PRO as license type, then you have a limit of 8 refreshes a day. Premium capacity can have up to 48 automatic refresh.
When you need more up to date data, or don't want to pay for premium capacity. You can store your data in an azure sql database, and use direct query to get your data.
I was able to refresh a power BI report using the desktop application. But when I am trying to schedule a refresh using the web application I am getting the following error.
I am getting data using the web source. I am using functions in the connection string. Is there a way I can schedule refresh in this case.
The maximum size for datasets imported into the Power BI service is 1 GB and Power BI Service places a limit on the amount of uncompressed data that is processed during refresh to 10 GB.
If you still hit the above two limitations, you are not able to refresh dataset in Power BI Service. You can use DirectQuery/Live connection mode to connect to your data source instead, or purchase Power BI Premium license to solve this issue.
You can also try to solve the issue by creating a view of the table within the source database
References:
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/report-server/scheduled-refresh
I want to create a dashboard for our office that shows the progress of my team in real time.
I get the data from an on premises sql database, modeled the data in Power BI Desktop, and want to show the data on a TV that shows the Power BI website.
But how do I keep the data up to date?
I know that the Power BI Website offers a scheduled refresh but I can only set 7 times per day and I want the dashboard to refresh at least every 5 minutes. I also know about the streaming datasets but you cant use them in Power BI Desktop and I want to use custom visualisations. When I try to use Direct Query I get the following message :
This Step leads to a Query which is not supported in Direct Query Mode.
Is it possible to create live dashboards using Power BI? Or do you know software that is more suitable for my purpose?
This is possible with a Power Bi Report Server installed on premises and SQL Server Agent running with your on premises sql database. You develop your report and save it to the Power Bi Report Server. Then you can setup your Data Refresh interval to every 5 minutes.
This walk through shows you how to setup a Data refresh interval for every 2 minutes. Use it as a guide to create your report and save to Report Server.
Once saved to Report Server you can setup a data refresh interval for your report to every 5 minutes.
You will need the latest version of Report Server (March 2018 at the time of this answer) and a the latest version of Power Bi Desktop Optimized for Report Server (March 2018 also). SQL Server Agent will be needed to be installed at your SQL Server. The SQL Server Agent will store the data refresh job specification that you define using the Power Bi Report Server interface.
I know it is possible to adhoc refresh the data on power bi desktop but unlike on power bi online I am unable to find a way of creating a scheduled refresh. I have looked into personal gateways but unable to find a suitable solution. I want the data to be refreshed daily and this data is coming from a postgres database in Amazon Web Service where the data is updated daily.
Power BI desktop(local) have only manual refresh, scheduler is not available in desktop power bi when you want to implement scheduler then follow this link
how-to-configure-schedule-refresh-in-power-bi-reports
when you established a connection using the database and create report and publish on app power bi from power bi desktop after that apply scheduler then it will reflect data changes on every refresh.
Cheers.