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Need the ability to stop or pause a data refresh from Power BI online scheduler.

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Shannon Younghans on 16 Jan 2016 00:28:11

If there are many reports running at the time and one report seems like a resource hog, you would want to pause or stop a refresh so that another report can finish.

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562cc8c8 84dd-4979-b271-12dfc2ef00af on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:01

RE: Need the ability to stop or pause a data refresh from Power BI online scheduler.

I support this feature to be included in PBI services.

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1caf9763 6306-4f31-a257-58e68bf84caf on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:55

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Voted up

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5ae6970b d513-4bac-8266-a781c4dd19aa on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:20

RE: Need the ability to stop or pause a data refresh from Power BI online scheduler.

'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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4eabd017 e211-ea11-a811-000d3a8f022a on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:45

RE: Need the ability to stop or pause a data refresh from Power BI online scheduler.

This would really be a great functionality, because of many reasons. E.g. You can not publish changes to reports when refresh is running in the service, and sometimes the refresh runs with errors due to e.g timeout.
In these cases a simple pause/stop functionality would save alot of time.

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07be6b9b 29ec-4707-b2b4-2e33276e5bc3 on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:30

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Would be nice just to have a big button to pause all refreshes in a tenant to make server maintenance easier.

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3e1b7fb0 54de-4529-900c-ab9606abc584 on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:19

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OMG, is really needed to refresh previow every single time a small little tweak is done in the model? it would take years to tailor any report.

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7a56ab7f 0f31-48c3-871b-8f0c6221f123 on 05 Jul 2020 23:30:39

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Can't upload a report until refresh finishes - wastes my time... Please add this feature.

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635f698c c579-4787-9c0e-c27cab87b8cd on 05 Jul 2020 23:27:19

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Would also love this feature especially for troubleshooting purpose :(

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80db0db7 32b9-44dd-af8b-5a1fed3a0c90 on 05 Jul 2020 23:26:38

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I need to be able to block refreshing a dataset while allowing others to refresh so that subledger data can tie for month end to the GL.

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62f3f804 cce2-4834-9944-e14dedf7bb22 on 05 Jul 2020 23:25:13

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Please add this feature. Stopping the gateway is not a solution. Thanks.