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Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

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Shawn Davis on 19 Aug 2015 23:26:55

Pro users have the ability to schedule refresh for daily (intra day) and weekly. For some datasets, monthly is the right cadence. Can we have a scheduled refresh option that is Monthly (and lets us choose which day of the month the refresh is to occur)?

Administrator on 21 Oct 2022 02:42:32

10/20/2022 - under review - Mo

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Shinji Okubo on 02 Mar 2021 04:18:37

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Monthly schedule is absolute need!

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Katerina Bila on 22 Feb 2021 14:17:16

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Idea posted in 2015 and still not implemented?? How is this not yet a normal feature, when so many reportings run on a monthly basis?

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Irina Giller on 19 Feb 2021 14:40:00

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Started using Power BI after using Tableau. I didn't expect the functionality to be identical, but certain basic features are totally a must. Having a monthly refresh is a basic feature to me, so would like that to be added to the product functionality.

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Nosa Agho on 18 Feb 2021 10:22:59

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

These are really much needed options.

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Melinda Hartman on 26 Jan 2021 15:40:48

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

I'm flabbergasted by some of the missing capabilities, but this is one of the most egregious! So much reporting is done monthly, quarterly, annually, etc - to only have the capability to refresh daily or weekly is a big miss.

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Justin Maser on 21 Jan 2021 21:01:39

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Unsure why this isn't already an option? There are many times when you need to refresh a report to show new monthly metrics

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Fred Goetz on 07 Jan 2021 18:59:29

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Please add this so we can automate our monthly reports. The refresh takes a significant amount of time and we don't want to run it on a weekly basis.

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Markus Lechner on 17 Nov 2020 15:25:02

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Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

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Oleg Vasiltsov on 29 Oct 2020 13:34:30

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Please bring us the same flexibility as SQL agent. Monthly schedule is absolute need!

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Ashley Hollingshead on 24 Sep 2020 17:24:30

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Adding the monthly option with a specific date is needed by the business. Without this option many data sets require an unnecessary daily refresh.