Hi all,
I am currently using PowerBI Pro (as opposed to Premium) as part of my organization, which means that there are limitations to the number of times I can refresh my dataflows. Since my dataflows are linked to excel files in Sharepoint, I thought of using power automate to refresh my dataflows every time the Excel file is updated. I followed this tutorial:
Trigger a Dataset / Dataflow Refresh using Power Automate / Beginners Guide to Power BI in 2021 - YouTube
However, the When a new file is added in SharePoint, complete a custom action does not seem to run, and i see nothing in the 28 day run history. Any assistance would be highly appreciated.
Regards
Musa
Hi @musa.fasih,
So “updating a file” is not the same as “adding a new file to a folder.” Did you modify the trigger?
If not, take a look into the trigger for this template Update Power BI dataset when a SharePoint file is updated and see if you can incorporate that into your Flow.
I hope this is helpful.
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Thank you so much for that detailed answer @Melissa
We hope this helped you @musa.fasih
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Thank you Melissa, that was indeed very helpful!
For the understanding of other users who are going through this thread, I have tweaked the flow to suit my needs. This is what I have done:
Clicking on the Update PowerBI dataset when a Sharepoint file is updated will take you to a page where you will find the following 3 steps:
Keep the first step and remove the second and the third step. Add an additional step Refresh a dataflow, so that you are left only with the following steps:
You could then use a separate flow for refreshing the dataset as explained in the video whose link is added in my original comment.
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