refreshing file-based connections

Published Dashboards

*Once published, the file-based connections don’t refresh based on the file location.

If you want to refresh data for a dashboard based on a file (CSV, Excel, JSON), use the external tool Alpana Update File Dependency

Refreshing in the Designer

Inside the Designer, you can manually force the refresh by Editing the Connection and clicking the refresh button next to the file name :

This will import the file changes inside the Designer, regardless of the Buffer Refresh settings.

*Note : this only works if you configured the file name during the current Designer session, because the file name is not stored