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Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

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Shawn Davis on 19 Aug 2015 23:26:55

Pro users have the ability to schedule refresh for daily (intra day) and weekly. For some datasets, monthly is the right cadence. Can we have a scheduled refresh option that is Monthly (and lets us choose which day of the month the refresh is to occur)?

Administrator on 21 Oct 2022 02:42:32

10/20/2022 - under review - Mo

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Mojo on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:49

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Need monthly schedule!!

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Julia Szulik on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:46

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

That would be extremely useful, some reports need to be refreshed only once a month or even once a quarter!

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Christian on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:08

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Weekly and Daily just doesn't cut it anymore. Even Reporting Services had en similar function to schedule by calendar. Please add this cause judging by the votes, it is much needed.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:07

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

I need to do something that's scheduled monthly, so this is more or less a must have for me now

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Francois La Haye on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:01

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

What are you waiting for... :( This should be an easy fix on power bi service.

I have a bunch of exec who needs dashboards and reports ran only monthly.

Many thanks

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Arj Dhandapani on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:28

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

How did the Monthly option get missed out. Until this feature is available, we need a resource to refresh date everymonth!

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Giovanni Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:27

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

MS SQL offers many scheduling options. I am struggling to have them matched in PBI. Please add the monthly refresh option

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:13

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

FYI, you could realise this pretty easily using a Microsoft Flow to trigger the refresh. That being said, this shouldn't be difficult to implement in the PowerBI service.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:05

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Absolute must. Not sure why this wasn't available out of the box while daily/weekly is.

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Heinrich Hochhalter on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:22

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Must be a very simple issue, to add. Now, to have a monthly refresh I need to run it daily. Isn't that a waste of resources?