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scheduled export of a report to pdf

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Sander on 14 Apr 2016 16:25:02

It would be nice if there is an option to have a scheduled export of a report to PDF. A nice to have feature would be to directly e-mail it to people so they are being notified of the latest report.

Chris Finlan (administrator) on 18 Dec 2020 23:56:52

In addition to the support we have for paginated reports already, we have started the work to support this for Power BI reports and expect it to land by the end of the calendar year in the Power BI service.  Like for paginated reports, it will be a Premium feature and will be available to customers with either Premium capacity or if you have the new Premium per user license, which will be available at no cost to all users during the public preview period.  You can read more about getting priority access to the public preview for your tenant at this link - https://powerbi.microsoft.com/blog/priority-access-sign-up-for-power-bi-premium-per-user-public-preview-now-available/

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:58:58

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Now that we have bookmarks, the print to PDF should allow us to print all bookmarks, putting each bookmark on a separate page.

Also, would be good if we can choose landscape versus portrait.

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Wildmight on 16 Aug 2020 03:58:47

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Any progress on that?

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Jim on 16 Aug 2020 03:58:43

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Please add this. Being able to see them on a web page is not enough. Saving to PPT is limited to 15 pages - so that isn't useful for complex reports. Lots of corrections being asked for, but this is my number 1 priority.

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John Pratt on 16 Aug 2020 03:58:39

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

I would be happy with just PDF format, with the others being gravy. A key requirement is that all pages of the report get exported to the PDF, such that one report page equals one PDF page. I have to deal with the (executive) users who will never actually run the reports but will review one provided to them.

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Rafael Quevedo on 16 Aug 2020 03:58:39

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Management Teams would like to receive into one PDF file all the information of a Dashboard with multiple tabs/pages. However, we found that one dashboard serves multiple audiences, just the need to have different selection criteria, therefore would be beneficial to enable to send the same dashboard with a different selection criteria.

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Sam Thompson on 16 Aug 2020 03:58:39

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Effective printing is a must both in service and in desktop. The export to powerpoint overcomes some of the issues but then limits the size to 15 pages. Extraordinary that's its not a function.

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Jonathan Hunter on 16 Aug 2020 03:58:39

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

This one really needs some attention. I think all of us want to be able to schedule an email with a PDF attachment of the report.

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Kate Holte on 16 Aug 2020 03:58:38

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

This feature not being available is about to derail the roll out of Power BI. This is very much needed.

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Alexandre Blanc on 16 Aug 2020 03:58:38

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Much needed. It shouldn't be necessary to even request this. URGENT URGENT URGENT

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Tejinder Marwah on 16 Aug 2020 03:58:38

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Lack of this feature is posing a hurdle to recommend our Govt. departments for Power BI tool