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PowerBIntegration.Refresh() not working

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Posted on by lburgess

I have a new Power App that I am trying to integrate with a new Power BI report. The data source for both is a SharePoint Online list. The Submit button in the form does 3 things: SubmitForm, PowerBIIntegration.Refresh, and NewForm. The issue is that the new row is written to SharePoint but the Power BI report is not updated until I manually refresh the data in the PBI service.

I've noticed that the following sequence seems to work:

1. Add the row using the Power App in the report through the PBI service.

2. Manually refresh the data source.

3. Click the Refresh button on the Report page in the PBI service.

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lburgess 30 on at

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Re: PowerBIntegration.Refresh() not working

The issue seems to be that Power BI does not support direct query to SharePoint.

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Re: PowerBIntegration.Refresh() not working

Hi @lburgess ,

Are you using the PowerApps custom visual for Power BI? If so, see the limitations of the PowerApps custom visual:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/powerapps-custom-visual

The PowerApps custom visual can't trigger a refresh of Power BI reports and Power BI data sources from within Power BI Desktop. If you write back data from the app to the same data source as the report, your changes won't be reflected immediately in Power BI Desktop. Changes are reflected on the next scheduled refresh.

If you use PowerBIIntegration.Refresh() function, you must use a source that supports DirectQuery and the data connection must be created using DirectQuery method.

Regards,

Mona