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Do you or your users wonder how recent the data they are seeing in Power BI is?
If so, there are two new easy-to-use capabilities in Power BI that make it easier for you and your users to understand the status of the data in dashboards.
Both controls basically clear the cached data for the dashboard that is shown to the user to make dashboard load quickly.
First – "Refresh Dashboard tiles" is a new control on dashboards. Anyone can do this on any dashboard to which they have access.
Let's be clear about that this does. It clears the cached dashboard data for the tile that is shown to the user to make dashboard load quick. When you "Refresh dashboard tiles":
You can find and use this this option quite easily
See this example below:
Second, you can add last refresh date to tiles. See this example showing the refresh time on the tiles so you know when the tile was updated.
You can easily add this info to any tile you own:
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