Project Online Reports - Power Query vs. Power Pivot

Does anyone know offhand if I use PowerQuery to build a data model for Project Online, all users viewing the report in Excel will need to use Fiddler to refresh the data, right? I'm beginning to get the sense that although PowerQuery makes it easier to build
the data model, the report becomes not as useful when being opened in Excel...
Thanks,
Roland

Hello,
I've not heard that before. If you create a PowerQuery (PowerQuery for Excel) report then users will be able refresh the data in the Excel client. You should also be able to schedule the refresh if you have PowerBI on the tenant:
https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/Schedule-data-refresh-for-workbooks-in-Power-BI-for-Office-365-7d6d2816-7fb0-4c5f-a353-d5bd13124985
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