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Greg Galloway on 02 Jan 2015 15:46:09

Without the ability to define my model in Excel or the Power BI designer with relationships and DAX calculations and column properties/formatting, it's going to be very difficult to get my dashboards to work and look as I want. I would like to be able to upload an Excel or Power BI Designer model then use the API to push new data into it real-time. I'd also like to be able to schedule refresh and decide what happens to the API pushed data during scheduled refresh. For example, I may upload a model with 100,000 rows, then use the API to add 5,000 new rows. But during scheduled refresh those 5,000 new rows are also in my SQL source so I want to wipe out the API pushed data upon scheduled refresh.

Administrator on 03 Jan 2015 02:48:05

Hi Greg, this is definitely on our plan thanks. We'll be spending time on building out the APIs over the coming months. Thanks!

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:37

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No updates????

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Yugene on 05 Jul 2020 23:37:24

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So sad not to see any updates...

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Steven Dauw on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:20

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any update on this?

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Nicole Carlin on 05 Jul 2020 23:10:12

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This was "planned" 3 years ago... is it still going to happen?

What's the point in being able to push data through the API if we can't add rows to an existing dataset? It wouldn't be as big of an issue if it were possible to at least have the full Desktop functionality using a data source from the PBI Service, but neither way works currently?

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Tijs Koster on 05 Jul 2020 22:43:14

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Is there any update on this matter?

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Lee on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:36

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Please...this is making the difference in convincing customers to use Power BI.

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Kamlesh on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:32

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It is sad to see that the issue has not been fixed for quite some time. Could you please at least update with the schedule release date? It is a big limitation and we cannot proceed further.

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Nick Raphael on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:08

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So annoying when we get no updates from the team...

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Rakhshanda Khan on 05 Jul 2020 22:29:04

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This is very important and a must have feature. Its been so long, any updates friends?

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Nick on 05 Jul 2020 22:18:24

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This is a must have! Especially for IOT projects!