Hi All,
I am having issues while working with UTC to local date time conversion. The scenario is that we are creating reports and uploading them in the Power BI embedded workspaces on Azure (not publishing to Power BI Service). The end user views them from our web apps.
Here is what I have done and experienced.
1. I created a report with DirectQuery to connect to data from a view. The view returns few date fields which are in UTC format.
2. Under Edit Queries->Transform, I converted the DateTime field to DateTimeZone type
3. Then I converted the time to Local time by selecting "Local Time" option under Transform->Time ribbon button. Which resulted in saying that this operation is not supported in the DirectQuery mode.
4. I converted the report to Import mode instead of DirectQuery mode.
Now there are two problems.
1. I didnt get much information on when the refresh would be done (daily every night, or 8 times per day - I read it somewhere) on the imported data once the report is imported to the Power BI embedded workspace on Azure because I tried creating another record from the web app and tried to refresh the report but it didnt appear in the report.
2. When I try to update the connection string via the command line tool mentioned here I get an error "Ooops, something broke: Operation returned an invalid status code 'BadRequest'.
I dont have an idea why this error is coming.
I also tried enabling the option of "Allow unrestricted measures in DirectQuery mode" in order to not to convert the report to import mode but still after changing the column to local time resulted in forcing me to update the report to import mode.
Please help.
Regards,
Adeel
