Auto Refresh PivotTables & Queries not working

[jayjay123]

Hi Excel Gurus,

I created a spreadsheet...
(tab 1) - Source Data (OLD data)
(tab 2) - Source Data (NEW data)
(tab 3) - Power query to combine (tab 1+2) Old and new data
(tab 4) - I have created a pivot table based on the Power Query (tab 3).

Now when I update the data in tab 1 & 2, the Power query in tab 3 updates successfully, but the pivot tables does not (tab 4).

Is there a way to connect the pivot table successfully so that when I click "Refresh All", all data updates in the tab 3 & 4?

hope that makes sense.

thanks

 

[Alex Blakenburg]

That is a fairly well know issue. The Pivot is refreshing before the query has finished refreshing.
The original fix was to refresh twice.
The better method is to turn off Background Refresh on the query so that it will finish refreshing the query before trying to refresh the pivot.

One way to do this is, right click on the query in the Query pane and select properties.
In the properties window uncheck background refresh.

You can read more on it at Excel Campus here
Disable Background Refresh on All Power Query Connections - VBA

PS: This only happens if you stack the Pivot on a Power Query table
It doesn't happen if get the query produce the pivot as its output or if load the query result into the data model and use Power Pivot on the data model.

 

[jayjay123]

amazing! thank you so much @Alex Blakenburg!

 

[Alex Blakenburg]

You're welcome. Glad I could help.