Hi,
Before sandboxing it was possible to have a custom visual click the “Refresh” button programmatically. This was a very practical yet simple way to bring real-time or near real-time behavior into reports. There is some support for auto-refreshing visuals in dashboards; however it is not as useful as having it in reports since we cannot interact with the content of the visuals in dashboards. It would be nice to have more easy-to-use real-time support in reports, maybe from the custom visuals API or by having access to an official visual that calls for a “refresh” at regular time intervals.
Thanks,