It appears that any desktop report I build that uses an excel file on my computer to pull some of its data will not allow "Schedule Refresh".
I tested this by stripping out all the excel tables and just left the SQL Server tables and the Schedule Refresh worked perfectly and refreshed when I scheduled it to.
My question: Do I have to get rid of all excel file references to be able to schedule refreshes? I'm hoping all I have to do is move these excel files to maybe "OneDrive" and they will work.
I was using a Date Table in excel but was able to build a Date Table within the Power BI Desktop so that was helpful but I have an excel sheet that has budget numbers on it that's nowhere on our server so I almost need an excel file table but I also need to schedule refreshes.