Setting Up Data Automatic Refresh

Automatic refresh enables the user to refresh data on changing of selection in a block or in the specified period. By default, automatic refresh is executed each time selection is changed.

Go to the Home ribbon tab.
Select the On Selection Change checkbox in the drop-down menu of the Automatic Refresh button.

The block is refreshed each time on changing of block source's dimension change.

To disable automatic refresh mode on selection change, deselect the On Selection Change checkbox in the drop-down menu of the Automatic Refresh button.

Go to the Home ribbon tab.
Select the Set Period button in the drop-down menu of the Automatic Refresh button. The Autorefresh Period dialog box opens:

Set autorefresh period for dashboard data in the dialog box. The refresh can be executed each N seconds, minutes, or hours.

NOTE. If autorefresh period has been already set for a dashboard, it can be selected in the drop-down menu of the Automatic Refresh button.

A dashboard is refreshed each time at the set period of time.

To disable regular data refresh, select the Do not Use button in the drop-down menu of the Automatic Refresh button.

Deselect the On Selection Change checkbox in the drop-down menu of the Automatic Refresh button and select the Do not Use radio button.
Release the Automatic Refresh button.

Dashboard automatic refresh is disabled.

NOTE. Dashboard dimensions synchronization settings are active even if data automatic refresh is disabled.

To set default automatic refresh options, click the Automatic Refresh button.

Manual Data Refresh

When automatic refresh is disabled, after selection change blocks are empty and contain only the Show Data hyperlink. To fill a block with data:

TIP. To reopen a data source used by the selected object, select the Reopen Data Sources item in the drop-down menu of the

Refresh button on the Data ribbon tab. The option is available only in the desktop application.