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Drill through to another report refresh with Live connection

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on 15 May 2019 21:05:21

Currently the drill through functionality to another report doesn´t seem to work correctly for Live connections. The first time works, but when going back and changing the drill through, the target report doesn´t refresh automatically. This is confusing for end users, because you don´t always realize that the data have not been refreshed. The Power BI support team acknowledged this problem and proposed I create a ticket in the "Idea" category. It seems more like a bug to me then anything else, but hereby the idea to make the drill through to another report functionality always refresh the target report after the filters have been passed through.
This ticket refers to the following issue;

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/Drill-through-to-another-report-not-refreshing/idi-p/679229?collapse_discussion=true&filter=location&location=idea-board:Issues&q=Report%20drill%20though&search_type=thread

Administrator on 16 Aug 2019 06:37:17

We've fixed this issue now and are rolling out the fix this week. If you don't see it working yet, you should see it by next week.

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Audrey Depireux on 22 Mar 2022 15:46:24

RE: Drill through to another report refresh with Live connection

Is it still unsolved..? because I have the issue...

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:56:35

RE: Drill through to another report refresh with Live connection

That´s great news Amanda! Thanks for the feedback!

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Cristian Popa on 05 Jul 2020 23:51:44

RE: Drill through to another report refresh with Live connection

This *seems* like an easy fix: Automatically trigger visuals update after performing a cross-report drill-through.
Spare the user from having to manually click refresh after each drill-through to apply the drill-through filters.

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Anita on 05 Jul 2020 23:50:49

RE: Drill through to another report refresh with Live connection

Please fix, otherwise this feature is not very useable!

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Penny on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:30

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I am having this issue too. The drill through functionality is awesome, but the need to refresh really makes it useless for end users IMO. Def. a bug. So close yet so far..sigh.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:28

RE: Drill through to another report refresh with Live connection

pls fix this asap, my customer very confusing on this :(