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    PowerBI connecting to SharePoint lists issue

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    Ron on 22 Jun 2016 23:07:20

    I am connected to a SharePoint List from PowerBI. I then updated the list to rename a column from "Title" to " Project" and also added two new columns.

    I then removed the existing SP List connection and reconnected to recognize the new changes. Once completed, I am not seeing the changes that I made to the SP list.

    Just to see if PowerBi was caching anything on my machine, I installed PowerBI on another machine and perform the connection process again to the same SP list and I got the same results.

    It seems that the problem may lean towards Sharepoint, but I welcome all feedback to help me get past this most frustrating issue.

    Thanks,
    Ron

    Administrator on 22 Jun 2016 23:58:23

    As you point out, the issue seem to be on the SharePoint side, especially because it repros in two different machines, including one that had not connected to the list previously. I wonder if there might just be a delay in how SharePoint propagates changes to the List schema into the OData feed that exposes the List data and that you're using in Power BI Desktop. Hope this helps.

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    Tom on 05 Jul 2020 22:31:47

    RE: PowerBI connecting to SharePoint lists issue

    I am experiencing the same behavior. The SharePoint online feed is not updating after a SharePoint list field is renamed. Yes, this would not seem to be a PowerBI bug, but that being said what is the process for getting this bug fixed?