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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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    Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:07

    RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

    I need to do something that's scheduled monthly, so this is more or less a must have for me now

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    Francois La Haye on 06 Jul 2020 00:08:01

    RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

    What are you waiting for... :( This should be an easy fix on power bi service.

    I have a bunch of exec who needs dashboards and reports ran only monthly.

    Many thanks

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    Arj Dhandapani on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:28

    RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

    How did the Monthly option get missed out. Until this feature is available, we need a resource to refresh date everymonth!

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    Giovanni Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:27

    RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

    MS SQL offers many scheduling options. I am struggling to have them matched in PBI. Please add the monthly refresh option

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    Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:13

    RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

    FYI, you could realise this pretty easily using a Microsoft Flow to trigger the refresh. That being said, this shouldn't be difficult to implement in the PowerBI service.

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    Power BI Ideas Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:05

    RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

    Absolute must. Not sure why this wasn't available out of the box while daily/weekly is.

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    Heinrich Hochhalter on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:22

    RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

    Must be a very simple issue, to add. Now, to have a monthly refresh I need to run it daily. Isn't that a waste of resources?

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    Billy Moran on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:18

    RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

    Much needed. This is a big issue for a few recent report we have setup. Now someone has to be assigned to go in monthly and update each report - takes a while with tons of data and formulas behind each. And if that person is unavailable we need a backup, as the report is critical and timely.

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    Mitchell on 06 Jul 2020 00:05:40

    RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

    This would be great to have. I need my data to refresh on a specific date of the month and this is not possible by weekly selection

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    clqLoveSpace on 06 Jul 2020 00:05:26

    RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

    Any chance of a monthly refresh soon?