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Cancel Power BI refresh on email received

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Posted on by 314mp_M0th4 126

Hello,

 

I need to build a flow that either refreshes a Power BI semantics model given a measure from Power BI or cancels a the refresh based on a received email. There is a trigger for refreshing a Power BI model but there seems to be none for cancelling a refresh. Can I extract a current measure value from a semantics model and refresh the model based on the value?

 

- Many thanks

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  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    lbendlin 8,649 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    You can issue the cancellation request as a REST API call, but only if the refresh was initiated via an API call as well.

     

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    NOTE:  It is only a cancellation REQUEST. There is no guarantee whatsoever that this request will be considered or actioned upon by the Power BI service.  Most of the time the refresh is too far advanced to be canceled.

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    314mp_M0th4 126 on at

    My idea was more if I have a scheduled refresh at 10:00 am and send a cancellation of that update at say 9:00 am. Would that be impossible?

  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    lbendlin 8,649 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    then you would have to use this call

    Datasets - Update Refresh Schedule In Group - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn

     

    You will probably want to abandon the schedule altogether and switch to an event based refresh.  Much more efficient.

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    314mp_M0th4 126 on at

    Makes sense, is it possible to get a measure value from power bi and trigger a refresh if it is a certain value?

  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    lbendlin 8,649 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    yes, you can run DAX queries from Power Automate and then react to the returned result as needed.

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