I have a power BI file that has to be manually refreshed and published to update it in the workspace (our BI admins will not provide a gateway to do this automatically for various reasons). I know this issue will come up with other programs that we need to automate but I am unsure how to phrase my …

@michael.mayer Indicate this pop up as a separate window and then try to click Alternately before closing you can send ctrl+s hotkeys to save it and pop up also might not come Cheers

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sharazkm32 (Sharaz K M) February 5, 2025, 6:21am 3

Since I don’t have Power BI desktop in my machine - I tried similar for excel popup

With use application and click - It is working fine. Please try similar for Power BI as well

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