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Hi,

I refresh  workbooks that contain queris in power query.

Sometims there is a problem with the refresh and the data are not updated but I don't know it untill I enter the quries themself and check the queris with the yellow triangle ( with the question mark inside)

How can I know that there was a problem without entering the queries?

Thanks

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Hi and welcome to our forum!

You can also see if there are errors in the Queries and Connections pane. Go to the Data tab on the Excel ribbon > Queries & Connections. This will open a pane on the right-hand side that shows the queries and any with errors will have a caution sign.

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Thank you Treacy!

I am refreshing a lot of workbooks using a Macro that opens the file then refresh the queris in it  and then save and close the file and going on to the next file.

I need an indication in an excel cell or in any another way that I can access this indication that File A was refreshed correctly and  file B did not refresh  the quries.

this way I will be able to know in  which files the queries  didn't refresh.

 

Thanks you!

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Hi,

You're using wb.RefreshAll or you refresh each query one by one?

Can you post the code you're using to refresh?

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I am using this code to refresh the workbook and save and close:

 

ActiveWorkbook.RefreshAll:  ActiveWindow.Close SaveChanges:=True

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RefreshAll works different in VBA than from user interface, in VBA will not raise error message when a query fails.

Loop through connections and refresh them one by one:

For Each Connection In ActiveWorkbook.Connections
If Connection.Type = xlConnectionTypeOLEDB Then
Connection.OLEDBConnection.BackgroundQuery = False
On Error GoTo 1
Connection.Refresh
End If
2:
Next Connection

Exit Sub
1:
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
'write to a cell: ActiveWorkbook.Name & " failed to refresh!"
End If
Resume 2

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