I'm using Power BI web preview and have SSAS as a data source. When my underlying SSAS tabular data model changes, I don't see my reports or the dataset in Power BI get updated.
Since manually "refreshing" the Power BI data set is not supported as of now, how do I make sure that my Power BI reports are in sync with the latest data?
There's a great blog on the Analysis Service connector here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2015/03/11/power-bi-analysis-services-connector-deep-dive.aspx
It includes the top trouble shooting tips. If you're still having problems, please use the "?" at the top of the power bi preview UI to ask for support.
HTH,
Lukasz
As of now you can use Power BI Gateway, and you will have the option to update cubes on scheduled intervals, or you can live connect as well.
Are you using import or direct query method? If you are using import mode you can set up an schedule refresh for that. If you are using direct query all your data is going to be updated
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I currently have a DOMO dashboard ready, am looking to port/replicate it on Power BI for another set of users who have the rest of their dashboards on Power BI. Is there a way I can do this?
Found a link with regard to having a writeback connector, is this the right one to go about doing it?:
https://domohelp.domo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063090013-Power-BI-Writeback-Connector
Another similar(?) question on this forum:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/Custom-Connector-with-Token-Refresh/m-p/2320423
The worst case scenario given to me, is to recreate the dashboard directly with the data source used in the DOMO dashboard (which I find the most intuitive as an analyst).
I could be trying to do the opposite of what the user here was trying to do from Power BI to DOMO:
Power BI to DOMO
I see there being two options for your use case, you can move the data out of Domo to Azure / Power BI via the Power BI Write-back Connector, which you have already identified, this can be automated and scheduled like a regular Domo process and is all managed and contained within the Domo UI, or, you could retain your data in Domo and have Power BI query it directly by via the ODBC Data Driver.
The ODBC driver setup creates a DSN (Data Source Name) on your machine which references your Domo instance, allowing you to create queries against Domo directly. You can then connect Power BI to that ODBC Connection.
I believe the visualisations would need to be re-created manually, I'm not aware of a tool that would let you port these across.
I am creating a Power BI dashboard using someone else's Power BI dashboard. All I've done right now is used Get Data -> Power BI datasets -> clicked on the dataset that is also used by this other person's dashboard. Then when I click on the Model tab on the left hand side, I see a bunch of SQL servers linked to one another. If I start changing the SQL relationships in the model section within my Power BI Desktop, will that also change the SQL relationships within the other person's Power BI dashboard? I am a new user of Power BI and SQL so apologies if this sounds confusing. I can provide more info if necessary.
Thank you.
When you use Get Data to connect to an existing Power BI Dataset, you aren't copying the dataset. Instead, multiple reports & dashboards will all connect to the same dataset. So, in the event that you have the required permissions, you changing the dataset will change it for the other reports & dashboards (which could break them).
For more information, check out the Shared Dataset information on MS Docs (e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/service-datasets-across-workspaces).
I'm having datasets in bigquery google cloud project,
I want to load this data from powerbi,So that I can create visualizations using this bigquery data sets.
Currently I'm able to see the google bigquery in getdata option in powerbi desktop,I tried to connect to bigquery but I'm not abe to see my bigquery dataset in the list,I'm using the same credentials for powerbi and google bigquery.
is there any thig that I need to enable in google cloud side so that it will be visible in the list when I connect from powerbi?
These are the following steps you can follow to connect GBQ to Power BI.
You can write a query and save the table in Google big Query.
Go in Power BI, get data and click on more and scroll down there you will find "Google Big Query" click on that.
Search your saved table and click on "Direct Query"
I think you will be good to go!!
I would not recommend using Power BI for Big Query analysis. As of Q1 2019 Power BI still do not support project billing unless manually editing the connexion script, it does not support Sheets federated tables, do not support nested and repeated fields and Power BI DML is nearly unusable with BQ. Microsoft do not seems to be willing to develop the compatibility between Power BI and Big Query further.
Learn more in this article (i am the author): https://medium.com/#remy_david/which-bi-tool-for-big-query-d9eb838ff7ad
I finally decided to ask this (after a lot of google searching):
So we use Power BI for data visualization and thus in it are some calculated dashboards / data outputs which are used to monitor data quality etc. I want to be able to historical log these results so that over-time we can monitor progress i.e. was data quality improved. This is the end of the initial problem.
One approach to this problem was to connect to PowerBI from the MS-SQL side - hoping we can then set timed triggers to do the log by READING THE POWER-BI DASHBOARDS: So how do I query that (I have already developed a method to determine the connection using the Power-BI port as described here:
EXPORTING DATA FROM POWER BI DESKTOP TO MS-SQL
This is a screenshot from one of my MS-SQL connections through "Analysis Services":
I am assuming the objects named like "LocalDateTable_" are the actual BI analysis I want to query. "New Query" is an MDX type of Query. Should I go this route for my problem (logging powerbi analyses)?
At first this sounds crazy but on reflection I guess it was only a matter of time, and a sign of the maturity of Power BI solutions ...
I would use the SQL Server Profiler to capture the queries generated while you use your dashboard & report.
https://insightsquest.com/2017/05/07/profiler-trace-for-power-bi-desktop/
Then I would build an SSIS package to run the MDX queries and deliver the datasets to SQL Server, with extra columns e.g. StartTime.
I am using SQL Server Database for my Power BI reports using import , is there any way to refresh the reports every hour (without using direct query)?
Thanks
you can go on Power BI Services, on your dataset (the one related to your DB) and schedule a refresh and then, add every hour of the day in you scheduled refresh. I'm totally aware that it is not the best option but it is working. Let me know if it helps you.
One possibility would be to have a job on your SQL server that runs every hour and saves the data, for the BI, to a table. Then the BI would not have to do any processing, rather it would just read (i.e. Direct Query) the latest data from a table. That should be a lot faster than running the query, in Direct Query, every time.
I am sorry to say but the schedule refresh functionality is only present in your Power BI Service and not in Power BI Desktop. If you want to know how to implement Schedule Refresh in Power BI Service I will provide you the solution. Please revert back and I have written one blog too. You can go through this link.
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