Refresh Failure in Power BI App

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

All source data is sat within the SharePoint. Each time I click refresh within my Workspace I get various message like the below. Any help would be appreciated as unable to locate the issue., thanks.

Processing error: [Unable to combine data] Section1/Average Per Day/Changed Type references other queries or steps, so it may not directly access a data source. Please rebuild this data combination.
Cluster URI: WABI-NORTH-EUROPE-D-PRIMARY-redirect.analysis.windows.net
Activity ID: 59a72142-e63b-456d-9ce4-4cb6e69d11f7
Request ID: 015bff37-c3ea-2536-659f-64b116107191
Time: 2021-08-24 16:32:57Z

[Anonymous]

@Greg_Deckler Hi Greg, are you able to further help? 

[Greg_Deckler]

@Anonymous The general problem seems to be related to privacy levels, have you set all of the queries to ignore privacy levels?

[Anonymous]

@Greg_Deckler Hey, yes they're set to ignore privacy levels yet still no jot 😞

[Greg_Deckler]

@Anonymous You could check the Issues forum here:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/idb-p/Issues

And if it is not there, then you could post it.

If you have Pro account you could try to open a support ticket. If you have a Pro account it is free. Go to https://support.powerbi.com. Scroll down and click "CREATE SUPPORT TICKET".

[Anonymous]

@Greg_Deckler thanks for your reply. No it has not! I have read your articles and attempted a few of the solutions however I am at a loss as I have built models yet not delved into the technicalties as per the article. 

Any further help would be appreciated? 

Thanks

[Greg_Deckler]

@Anonymous Has this ever worked? See if these help:

Power BI: Query references other queries or steps, so it may not directly access a data source. - AforAnalytics

Query references other queries or steps, so it may... - Microsoft Power BI Community

[Anonymous]

I wanted to let you know how I resolved this issue in the end. 

1) I changed the source of all my tables within Power Query Editor from the web link (to SharePoint via the URL link of each excel workbook) to the SharePoint folder connection. Avi Singh has a fantastic quick video showing the 3 methods of getting data from from SharePoint.  

2) By this connection (SP folder) you can set up the automatic refresh within Power BI Service (App) 

I hope this can help other users too