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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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Brian Tadros on 25 May 2022 19:11:34

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Y'all need to get on top of this. This is a basic request.

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Deer Meat on 18 May 2022 09:07:55

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

If you urgently need it, you can use Power Automate to customize the schedule refresh.

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Power BI User on 10 May 2022 21:43:42

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

I also support to implement the monthly refresh option, we developed many reports which need to be refreshed only once per month but they are crucial and critical to be updated with one month of data, interim refreshing does not make sense at all. So please implement this feature, it is much needed.

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Pawel Maszota on 22 Apr 2022 19:55:40

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Why this still "needs votes" with 2k votes? This clearly needs to be implemented in PBI Service

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Michael Mcdermott on 19 Apr 2022 15:52:31

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

do this

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Jamil Ahmed on 19 Apr 2022 14:08:28

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Its 2022. How is this basic feature not added. Its like this idea post is not even looked at. Still sitting under the "needs votes" status. Come on Microsoft. Pick up the pace a little please. The amount of times I have had to say sorry to clients saying "sorry that is not a feature available within PBI". Disappointing.

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Joseph Hersh on 05 Apr 2022 20:24:31

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

This feature needs to be added. I can't believe this simple addition hasn't been added after 7 years, based on the number of people that want this feature it seems like Microsoft is just going to ignore us.

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Matt Moody on 04 Apr 2022 14:11:40

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

Small change to make, but big impact considering the number of customers who stand to benefit from the time they are wasting manually updating reports

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Alexander Sneed on 01 Apr 2022 13:41:58

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

How is this a feature offered in the on premise version of Power Bi but is missing from the Service? On Premise there are so many more option you can set for scheduled refreshes including multiple different ones.

You can have it run Monthly on the first day and have it run weekly.

Please add Monthly to the refresh schedule within the service.

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Mark Albertson on 04 Mar 2022 17:06:46

RE: Add "monthly" as a scheduled refresh option

I work in revenue cycle for a large healthcare organization. Revenue cycle reports and scorecards come out monthly. A monthly refresh would be extremely beneficial.