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jerome
jerome

Reputation: 91

Is a Power BI embedded visual in a web application usable when data is being refreshed?

In the case of Power BI desktop, when I hit "Refresh", I get the following pop-up before all the visuals are re-rendered: Fig 1 - Refresh Data on Power BI Desktop

Now consider a web page with a Power BI Embedded visual/dashboard. Something like this: Fig 2 - Sample Web Page with Power BI Embedded

Assume that a user is interacting with this web page. Would the visual on the web page be usable (with old data) when a scheduled data refresh is in progress?, or will I get a similar pop-up (or loading screen) on the web page as shown in Fig 1?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 339

Answers (1)

Giovanni Luisotto
Giovanni Luisotto

Reputation: 1400

It has been a while since I've used the PowerBI service, but as far as I remember, once you deploy your report in PowerBI Service it gets split into two different objects:

  • Dataset (power query + the tabular model)
  • Report (which is just the visualization part)

When a dataset is refreshing the reports built upon it keep working without any problem, and once the data load has been completed the reports/dashboards are refreshed (on active sessions the refresh had to be made manually though).

The embedded content should behave exactly as a PowerBI report, therefore and active session won't see any change, but a new one will see the new data. If needed you should be able to "force" the refresh even on active session using the API.

Upvotes: 1

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