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Embedding Refresh Times in Power BI Reports

Marc Lelijveld shows how you can embed Power BI Dataflow refresh times in your Power BI reports:

But maybe you want to visualize this as part of your report as well. With a really simple piece of Power Query code you can easily generate a date/time at the moment that your dataset is processed. Kasper de Jonge wrote a blog post on that, so I’m not going to elaborate on that. However, when we add this as a separate entity to each dataflow, it results in a last successful refresh date/time for each dataflows.

Since each dataflow will be refreshed on it’s own, likewise as a dataset, the entity with your last date/time will always the last date/time for the whole dataflow, no matter how many entities are in there.

Read on to see how to combine and display these refresh times.