I have several PowerBI reports that don't refresh automatically or whenever I press refresh in the website and I have to use PowerBI desktop app to refresh it manually and then save it or publish it again.
The reports use direct queries in MySQL db and are shown in PowerBI website. BTW, These are the PowerBI reports not dashboards. Also I tried to use Automatic Refresh but it failed every time.
This is a screenshot of Power BI in the web:
When you click the Refresh command, it just expires the cache and reloads it from the data source. So if you have had a scheduled refresh or uploaded a new data set this will enable you to see the updated data.
It will NOT refresh the underlying data source. Data refresh is not done with this button.
If you use online content packs, the data refresh of the underlying data source is determined in the individual content pack.
If you use a PBX with your own data sources, you will need to use the data gateway to schedule data refreshes (or run them manually). Then you don't need to refresh the PIBX in PowerBI desktop and re-publish the file.
Well Microsoft Power BI Provides a way to refresh the data automatically by configuring the schedule Refresh in the Power BI Service. So, that wherever there is updated data in the queue it will automatically refresh the data based on schedule time. Below are steps for configuring the schedule refresh.
Open Power BI workspace.
Switch to report tab as shown in the image here.
Once you click on the button then you can see the new three icons as in the image here.
First and second are for report creation and refresh data. But the third icon is for schedule refresh.
Once you have successfully completed the above steps then your data or report will automatically get refreshed.
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I have connected a Data Studio report to our internal SQL data source and I've been searching for a way to auto refresh the report at certain intervals.
The only thing I found so far is the plugin called Data Studio Auto Refresh, which is not working.
Is there anyway to set up auto refresh on my Data Studio report using Google Apps Script?
The datastudio report is being projected to a large monitor in our office that's why I am trying any ways to auto refresh the report.
So since the report is being projected to our office monitor, as a workaround I tried creating a script and placing it to the developer tool console that will auto refresh the report at a chosen interval.
function refreshCases(){
$(".refreshIcon").click();
setTimeout(function(){
refreshCases();
},60000)
}
refreshCases();
Currently, there is no native / Apps Script based method to auto refresh an opened Data Studio report page.
You can vote for this feature at the official feature request tracker.
You can set data freshness for a data source when adding a new source.
You must be an editor of the data source to change this setting.
You can do this from within a report, or from the Data Sources home
page.
At the top, click Data freshness.
Under "Check for fresh data," select a new refresh option, if available.
Click SET DATA FRESHNESS.
You can set a different period of refresh depending on the source.
Here is the link to google documentation:
https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/7020039?hl=en
Actually you can do it using Data Studio Auto Refresh, what you need to do is enable the plugin then refresh the Data Studio your working for the plugin to work. The interval depends on what interval you choose. I'm using the plugin and its working. :D
im using SSRS reporting service,
on the Delivered by i have the E-Mail and window file share options,
I want the reports run every hour but i dont want to get a mail or any other delivery.
is it possible?
how can i do it?
Thanks..
You can configure the cache for a report in the Cache Refresh options in the Report Manager
From MSDN:
Open Report Manager, and locate the report or shared dataset for which you want to configure cache refresh plan properties.
Hover over the report or shared dataset, and click the drop-down arrow.
In the drop-down list, click Manage. The General properties page opens.
Click the Cache Refresh Plan tab.
To create a new cache plan, click New Cache Refresh Plan.
Note
You must enable and start the SQL Server Agent service to create a cache refresh plan.
To create a copy of a cache plan and then customize it, click New from Existing
I have a logo at the top of all my reports that I have as an embedded image.
These reports are displayed in an ASP.Net web app via the SSRS web service interface - all pretty standard stuff but the image doesn't render - I just get a broken link.
There are a number of possible solutions for this problem and I've tried a few things including setting UseSessionCookies to false in the ConfigurationInfo table.
What I've noticed is that the image displays fine when I change the anonymous account of the consuming web app from a least privileged service account to my own user account.
I do not understand why this and can't work out what special permissions are needed by my web app's service account to be able to view embedded images in reports.
Can anyone help?
Ok, problem solved. Kind of. The problem isn't limited to embedded images and occurs because I am not using the reporting services viewer.
To summarise:
1) when your web application is making the call to the report server it is fully authorized to do so. A SessionID is generated that is ONLY available to the web application account (i.e. the Service account under which the app runs).
2) the web app outputs the RAW HTML4.0 to the screen.
3) the browser receives the HTML and tries to retrieve the images referenced in the HTML.
4) the browser is running as your user account (e.g. domain\username1)
5) the report server receives a request that looks like:
6) now the SessionID listed in the URL is not associated with domain\username1, so report server claims it does not exist.
When you set the app domain to use the domain\username1 account, then the SessionID happens to be associated with your the account so suddently things 'work'. But the moment real users try the system they complain that the images are missing, since their domain\usernameN does not match the app pool account.
The solutions to this problem are as follows:
1) use the Report Viewer control. This will ensure that the URLs received by the Browser will point back to your web app and your web app identity will be used to retrieve them from the report server.
2) in your web app code, parse the HTML4.0 that you get back from the Render call, fetch and cache all the images, re-write the HTML4.0 links to point to the cached images stored by your web app and then send it to the browser (if this seems complicated... then use the Report Viewer control since it make the scenario work)
3) you can try to use the MHTML output format, this will produce a fully qualified report with images embedded in the since binary stream. The consequence of this is it is harder to embed it within an application page... but not insurmountable
I chose to use a variation on 2) because I don't want to use the report viewer. The logo I'm trying to display is already hosted in the calling web app so I just replace the src attribute of the img tag in the response returned from the SSRS report execution service with the url to this location.
I really don't want to use the report viewer as suggested as the best solution to this issue. Why SSRS has to use session information to return something as simple as a logo that is displayed on all reports is beyond me.... It has taken ages to get to the bottom of this and the solution isn't especially pretty....
Is this an external image? Take a look at this MSDN article that explains the permissions needed for retrieving an image:
When the report is previewed in Report Designer, preview uses the
credentials of the user to display the image. When the report is run
on the report server, the report server uses the unattended execution
account to retrieve the image. If the unattended execution account is
not specified, the image is retrieved using no credentials (anonymous
user account). If either of these accounts have insufficient rights to
access the image, the image will not be displayed in the report.
I would check the permissions on the image in the Report Manager.
I am using URL access to embed a report in an application using a URL that looks something like this:
https://servername/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/ReportPath/¶meter=value
This report has several parameters whose valid values are populated by queries.
The report is displayed in about the same amount of time as it takes when accessing the report via Report Manager.
However, I've noticed that if I change a parameter in Report Manager and click the "View Report" button, it refreshes a few seconds faster than if I refresh the report by URL access.
I assume this is because refreshing the report in Report Manager cuts out some processing steps. It looks like a bunch of state is sent back to the server when you refresh the report using the "View Report" button in Report Manager, whereas I presume refreshing the report via URL access is essentially doing all of the work from scratch.
Are my assumptions correct? Is there any way I can refresh a report with new parameters via URL access just as quickly as it does when using Report Manager?
You're assumptions are correct, as far as I know the Report Manager and ReportViewer controls will have a session spanning multiple requests. (Although I'm a bit surprised this would also work when you change the parameters, because I can't imagine what steps could be skipped in that case.)
To control this, the Report Manager uses sessions. Even though I haven't tried it myself, you should be able to do this with URLS by using the SessionId and related parameters.
Let us know if this worked for you!
I am using CRM 4 and have uploaded an ssrs report into the reports area. I published this for external use and in one of the entites have an iFrame that points to this published report.
This all works well, the problem is that if I update some of the info that the report is looking at and refresh the page the report doesn't update.
In fact I need to close the browser and re-open it of the report to refresh. This only happens in the iFrame, if I re-run the report in the reports section it updates correctly.
I assume this is because the info is cached somewhere. Does anybody know if there is a way to force CRM/SSRS to get the info afresh every time?
Thanks,
Neil
You need to add an additional parameter to the end of the URL used as the IFRAME source
&rs:ClearSession=true
This forces a refresh of the report each time it is accessed.