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Stop/cancel query button

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Sam on 17 Nov 2017 22:23:09

Button to stop a query or pressing Esc to end a ruining query

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Joseph Hughes on 29 Apr 2021 14:37:45

RE: Stop/cancel query button

This has been an idea for years and cannot understand what is holding up the developers here.

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SudharshanKopperla on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:24

RE: Stop/cancel query button

Strange that this basic feature in not available in Power BI

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:56

RE: Stop/cancel query button

We have this exact issue, both ad-hoc and scheduled in on-prem. So far, no answers except to "recycle the Gateway service"

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:34

RE: Stop/cancel query button

No sure how this idea only has 6 votes. The reason Im here is because Im waiting for the tiny little spinning circles on my report to stop spinning. I can't just make them stop. It would be nice if I could. I would probably waste a lot less time.

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john ridge on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:18

RE: Stop/cancel query button

'Additionally, it would seem very very useful to have
- a more general "stop all automatic calculations" option
- an ad-hoc "compute now" buttom
to allow a user to enter the DAX for multuiple new computed measures / columns etc.

The user coud then either signal to the system either :
a) press the "compute now" button
OR
b) change the general setting back to "automatically compute"
etc

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:07:32

RE: Stop/cancel query button

For now, I simply close the window of powerBI Desktop but allowing to stop a query using esc is something that should be possible