Users can publish Jira Power BI reports and dashboards in Power BI Server or Power BI Service.
The Power BI reports and dashboards won’t refresh by default.
To get actual Jira data in the reports and dashboards in Power BI, a few options exist:
users can apply a refresh manually on a regular basis;
users can schedule a refresh to a suitable time;
users can create on-demand refreshes.
Scheduled Refresh is the scheduling task that can be set for data extract refresh. Thus, users get refreshed automatically while publishing a report and dashboard with this data extract.
This also removes the burden of republishing the reports and dashboards every time the concerned data gets updated.
With Power BI Connector for Jira you can schedule refreshes to get the actual Jira data. For example, you can schedule a refresh for 7 a.m. and have all your reports updated with actual Jira data until the beginning of your working day at 9 a.m. See instructions below.
Schedule a refresh on Power BI Service
Note! It is impossible to get live Jira data in Power BI and have a real-time synchronization.
Based on the Microsoft manuals, only a few data sources allow streaming live and real-time data in Power BI at the moment. Based on our customers' best practices, we kindly recommend using a scheduled refresh to get actual Jira reports in Power BI.