Refresh time on visual

[adnankabina]

I want to show Estern time on my visual. I have schedule for every 2 hours to refresh my data.  what I did on measure

Last Refreshed Time = UTCNOW()-TIME(4,0,0)

It is showing fine but it should stay same time until next refresh is done.  Below pic shows it refreshed at 6pm eastern time. If user goes to on 6:45pm and try to refreh from menue as show in pic should not change it.

[Anonymous]

I appreciate this entire thread of discussion, but it seems to be taking the System date (LocalNow) and adding it to the report.  My question is this:  I want the report to show the last date/time the report was refreshed, and “date/time” refers to the Refresh time set in the Gateway settings for refresh.  I know when that is supposed to be, because the report generating person, I set that date and time.  However, the consumer of the report does not necessarily know that and then it would be convenient to have a measure (or calculated column or…) that automatically shows when the actual last refresh date/time was so that the consumer is reassured that they are looking at “current” data.  I was looking at wrong a measure, but how do I access that date/time, set up in the Gateway settings, and integrate that with the report.??

[v-jayw-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @adnankabina ,

In your scenario, you should use Calculated Column or M Query instead of Measure.

The former will refresh time after the dataset was refreshed, the latter will refresh time after the page was refreshed.

For calculated column, right click on the table and create a new column using your formula.

For M Query, open query editor and add custom column with below formula.

DateTime.LocalNow() + #duration(0,4,0,0)

Best Regards,

Jay

[AnkitKukreja]

Hi @adnankabina 

I believe you're on the right track, but would you mind creating the same in Query Editor. 
Please use Blank query and write = DateTime.LocalNow(). 

Please refer to the below link for reference. it works fine for me and time only changes when I refresh the model or it's on schedule refresh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN6mOmEruOQ

Hope it helps.

Thanks,
Ankit Kukreja
www.linkedin.com/in/ankit-kukreja1904

[adnankabina]

Thanks for help. After publishing it is showing me UTC time , how can i subtract 4 hours? any idea

[AnkitKukreja]

Hi @adnankabina 

Yes, please use DateTime.From ( [DateTime] ) + #duration(0, +5,0,0)

Note : +5 is utc to my time zone (so change as per your need). And [DateTime] is my date time column already availbale.

Thanks,

Ankit

[adnankabina]

Hi AnkitKukreja,

Should I do in blank query or create a measure. I didnt get you.

This is what I did in blank query but go error.

= DateTime.From ( [DateTime] ) + #duration(0, +5,0,0)

Expression.Error: There is an unknown identifier. Did you use the [field] shorthand for a _[field] outside of an 'each' expression?

[AnkitKukreja]

Hi @adnankabina 

As you would have created your timestamp column by using blank query earlier, where you were getting time which was off by 4 hours. In the same table use this query by adding custom column.

Or in the same query use the below code, by deleting your full code in advance editor of this table and replace it by below code.

let
Source = DateTime.LocalNow(),
#"Converted to Table" = #table(1, {{Source}}),
#"Inserted Date" = Table.AddColumn(#"Converted to Table", "Date", each DateTime.Date([Column1]), type date),
#"Inserted Time" = Table.AddColumn(#"Inserted Date", "Time", each DateTime.Time([Column1]), type time),
#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Inserted Time",{{"Column1", "DateTime"}}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Renamed Columns", "DateTime MyZone", each DateTime.From ( [DateTime] ) + #duration(0, +5,0,0))
in
#"Added Custom"

Or you can just add custom column in your current table and use my last m code that I shared.

Thanks,

Ankit