来自 Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) 的 Power Bi 中的计划刷新数据集

Question

I have a Power BI project where the data is stored in sql server through DirectQuery. I would like to schedule the update of the report and therefore of the data, through Microsoft Automate (Flow).

Flow scheduling

When I run the schedule, however, I get this error message "Invalid dataset. This API can only be called on a Model-based dataset power bi".

{
  "error": {
    "code": "InvalidRequest",
    "message": "Invalid dataset. This API can only be called on a Model-based dataset"
  }
}

Immage Error

Why?

Answer 1

When you publish Direct Query report to PBI Service, there is no need in scheduled refresh, the service is able to query the data directly. Only import datasets require refresh when published to PBI service. That is the reason of the error - there is basically nothing to refresh.