Scott Senkeresty on 25 Jun 2016 23:26:10
My SQL database does processing each night, and when it is "done", I want to kick off a refresh of my dashboards... but there is no way to do this.
Need to add a REST API to kick off a refresh of a data source.
Administrator on 22 Jun 2017 11:42:45
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-data-refresh-apis-in-the-power-bi-service/
- Comments (8)
RE: Add REST API to refresh data sources
Yeah it is done!
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-data-refresh-apis-in-the-power-bi-service/
RE: Add REST API to refresh data sources
That feature would be very useful. Looking forward to have it!
RE: Add REST API to refresh data sources
This is critical to our use cases as well. Without this, we spend way more time than necessary manually re-running refreshes, and we can't write any code that detects a refresh failure to notify the team. I imagine by adding this to the API, we would hopefully also be able to return (or poll for) a success/failure status after the refresh completes.
RE: Add REST API to refresh data sources
I have an Azure function that updates input data daily, and to avoid n +/- 1 problems in refresh sync, I need that function to kick off PowerBI datasource refresh ... I'll see you guys at //BUILD about this. Keep up the good work, Thx
RE: Add REST API to refresh data sources
Need this badly to automate end to end process
RE: Add REST API to refresh data sources
This feature is terribly important to us.
RE: Add REST API to refresh data sources
This is really necessary for applications where you need realtime updates with predefined report created in Power BI desktop.
Cm'n this should be easy to implement.
RE: Add REST API to refresh data sources
The ability to trigger the refresh manually via the API allows more robust data pipelines and ensuring customer always sees the latest data.
One alternative right now is to schedule a bunch of refreshes throughout the day so at worst a customer has a 2-3 hour lag - this just causes extra load on the service.