jfontenot on 02 Sep 2017 00:31:50
Just like you can add a mailto:address.com in a list and make it actionable, you should be able to do the same with a phone number, with something like a tel: or callto: prefix. The ability to tap a phone number and make a call would make the phone layout version of a report much more valuable.
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RE: Phone Number Links
As others have mentioned, it would be very useful to be able to hyperlink the callto: and tel: functions, similar to how you can currently hyperlink a mailto: address.
RE: Phone Number Links
Yes please!
And add a functionality like "start Teams chat with list of persons" (should be aggregated by CONCATENATEX DAX function), "call via MS Teams", "call this phone number when used on mobile device" and other similar variants.
Thanks so much!
RE: Phone Number Links
Tap a phone number on a report in the mobile app and phone call is initiated...Yes, Please!
RE: Phone Number Links
Please.
RE: Phone Number Links
PLEASE!!
RE: Phone Number Links
Yes, Please!
RE: Phone Number Links
Our clients are becoming more reluctant to use computers for anything. Please add this feature! Mobile views in PowerBI need a lot of TLC and this would be a good start.
RE: Phone Number Links
This is actually possible... This article explains how it's done: https://kteam.ch/knowledge-base/phone-call-links-in-power-bi/
If you watch the video in the article, you'll see a way to do this without the need for a paid license and with a certified custom visual
RE: Phone Number Links
We can open a hyperlink from PowerBI. We can open a blank email addressed to a recipient from Power BI. We should be able to call someone from Power BI using the browser function in edge known as callto:588595. If we have mailto prefix why can't MS implement a callto: