There's probably some sort of workaround involving a custom query and some sort of "date changed" field but I'm not sure. Jeff Strauss might have some ideas.

Hi Himanshu,

I could imagine the following scenario:

1. Make sure you can define your "static" rows

as a combination of some (dimension) filters.

2. Do an extract of those "static" rows only

by applying your filters defined above

as the Extract Filters.

3. Make a copy of the resulting extract and rename it.

4. Do an extract of all other ("dynamic") rows

by reverting your currently established Extract Filters --

from Include to Exclude (and vice versa).

!!! Do not change Your Extract Filters from this step !!!

5. Save your workbook at this stage.

6. Append your Extract from the "static" file

saved at the step 3. The menu command is:

Data --> Extract --> Append Data from File...

7. If successful, save the workbook.

Every time you need to refresh your extract,

simply repeat steps 4-7. Start with Extract --> Refresh.

Refreshing an extract effectively removes all appended parts,

so re-append your "static" portion again after refreshing is complete.

Hope this would work for you.

Yours,

Yuri

Hi Yuriy,

I tried the exact same steps you mentioned. But I not able to append any rows. I get the message 0 rows appended.
Are you appending the second extract to the first or vice_versa? If I append second extract to the first I am not able to keep the filters added to the second extract.

Please attach a sample workbook if possible.

Hi Pas Sai,

Thank you for re-viving this thread.

You're right, my recipe above is plain wrong,

'cause the Extract Filter in the workbook remains intact,

and the appended rows become "filtered", hence 0 rows appended :-(

The recipe could be modified (complicated a bit) as follows:

1. Create a first workbook and make an Extract #1 of the Static part (old rows).

2. Create a second workbook and make an Extract #2 of the Dynamic part (new / updated rows).

3. Create a third (Target) workbook and point it to use the Extract #2 (TDE file) as the Datasource.

4. Explicitly make an extract from this datasource. Save the workbook.

5. Append from the Extract #1 (TDE file). You'll get the desired result.

Every time you want to refresh your data:

1. Refresh your Extract #2 using the second workbook.

2. Refresh your Target Extract using the third (Target) workbook.

3. Append to your Target Extract from the Extract #1 (TDE file).

Please find the attached as a mockup of the above (all version 10.2).

Sorry, I couldn't come with the better (yet).

Hope this makes sense.

Yours,

Yuri

I am not sure you would have resolved your problem or not, as it is very old thread.

The following solution works for your situation with Extract API.

1. Create a TDE file for static rows

2. Fetch all dynamic rows from Database

3. Merge with existing TDE file

4. Use the updated TDE file as as source for your Dashboard Design

Here is a Video which may help you more about Extract API.

Extract API Introduction