Every 30 Minutes refresh in Power BI Service

[BI_Analyticz]

Is there any way to refresh a report every 30 minutes in Power BI Service?

[AlexisOlson · Accepted solution]

Yes. You set up a refresh schedule for every half-hour increment. See also the documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/refresh-data

It's worth pointing out that there's a limit of 8 refreshes per day unless you have a premium capacity, in which case you can get up to 48.

At the moment, it looks like the refresh schedule is located under the Optimize Performance dropdown in the settings.

[jennratten]

Yes, you can set this to every 30 minutes by updating the refresh schedule with the Power BI Rest API.  There are different Urls for datasets in a group, dataflows, etc.  Just pick the one you need.  Below is the Url for dataset.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/update-refresh-schedule 

Sample Body:

{​​​
    "value": {​​​
      "days": [
        "Sunday",
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "times": [
        "06:00",
        "06:30",
        "07:00",
        "07:30",
        "08:00",
        "08:30",
        "09:00",
        "09:30",
        "10:00",
        "10:30",
        "11:00",
        "11:30",
        "12:00",
        "12:30",
        "13:00",
        "13:30",
        "14:00",
        "14:30",
        "15:00",
        "15:30",
        "16:00",
        "16:30",
        "17:00",
        "17:30",
        "18:00",
        "18:30",
        "19:00",
        "19:30",
        "20:00",
        "20:30",
        "21:00"
      ],
      "localTimeZoneId": "UTC"
    }​​​
}​​​