Data Refresh does not work

I have set up the gateway and instance in Power BI Admin center and it is running. However, I encountered this status when testing the connection :
We can't perform this operation because this workbook uses unsupported features. Correlation ID: 8dbdc11e-24cf-4e85-bf83-af700a6689fa
My workbook is a xlsx workbook that I converted from xlsm format. It contains Data Model connected to the SQL Server database.
Please help.

Maybe it is not related to the conversion but to actual features that are not supported in Excel Services in edit mode. You can learn more about these features at
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Differences-between-using-a-workbook-in-the-browser-and-in-Excel-f0dc28ed-b85d-4e1d-be6d-5878005db3b6
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My phone is the iPhone 5s and is on the latest IOS 8.1.1 but was the same on 8.1.0 and whatever was previous to that.
I am on the three network pay monthly and all issues i mentioned about relate to being on 3G and on wifi so it's not a signal issue.
I'm soooo confused :/
Thank you

I Have your same question, I don't understand the advantages of keeping the app refresh on....

Auto sync of Date & Time does not work on startup

Is there a reason why out of two entire labs of like 60 mac's that when restarted, a number of them will not look to sync up the date & time. I have every computer to do so, but for some odd reason, on a shutdown/restart, random computers will not sync up and ge the proper time.
The correct time is needed because these computers are running on with the AD Plugn, and AD will not allow computer user to login to the computer using AD user credentials if the time is not matched to the server. So what is happening, after a shutdown/restart, the computers can be off as much as a couple of mins, causing the users not able to login.
The only way right now to fix the issue is for me to log into the computer using my admin account, just open up the date/time preferences, and then with out doing anything, it will sync up to the correct time/date, and then I just restart the computer. Once restarted, users can login.
Any ideas ??
Tks.
Carter

Just received this from SAP:
17.04.2009 - 09:20:53 CET - Reply by SAP
Hi Henning
Thanks for contacting SAP and providing with most of the details required to analyze the issue.
As per note 1235408,this is a known issue with Flex2.
Visual Composer UI elements are displayed relative to the browser size and not relative to each other.
Solution: None; there is no relative layout available for the Flex 2 runtime.
Workaround: Choose the "Actual size" option in the "Fit contents" list in the Configure task panel of the UI elements.
Please refer to the note for workaround on the issue.
See mentioned note if this also applies to your problem.
Henning

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