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Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

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Power BI User on 08 Nov 2018 16:46:05

Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium .. thank you

Haydn Richardson (administrator) on 20 Jan 2023 01:03:09

Paginated reports are now available in Power BI Pro. See Announcing support for paginated reports in Power BI Pro | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI

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Rosey Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:28

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

Our medium sized business uses Power Bi to track what will be invoiced in the next 12 months across 300 projects.
Often the billing is adjusted on many projects during a month. We need to be able to review what our prediction looked like last month, last quarter. So that we can compare it to our current prediction, and review what has changed.
If i can automatically run a paginated report, I can save the fee prediction at the start of every month.
At the moment it is a single point of failure that relies on one person manually creating a report.

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Vance Smiley on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:24

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

Smallish business just Can't make the cost leap from pro to premium. BIG vote for Pro to have paginated features!

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NTK on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:15

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

the last comment from MS says, " ....providing the feedback/examples of why this is so important to you and your organization."

The reason is NO BRAINER. Every single person who has commented and voted has said PREMIUM is just Tooooooooooooooooo expensive for small/medium companies. (FULL STOP)

Haven't you still got the message? Any updates?

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Elliott Carver on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:13

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

I am working at a 160-person company. We've transformed our business using Power BI datasets and need to be able to design paginated reports in-house. Doing this work with consultants is problematic, they do not have a long-term interest in creating and maintaining great datasets, we can manage our own reporting!!

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:05

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

what is also disappointing is that even with premium you need to be on A4 level pricing tier to use it.

If Pro users are able to use paginated reports I would expect the barrier to entry for premium to be reduced to A1.

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James Moore on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:04

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

As with the other comments below, for a small to medium sized business, it doesn't make sense to use power bi premium due to the costs. Without paginated reports for pro level users, it doesn't make sense to move to PowerBI.

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Kunal Kochhar on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:49

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

Need it for Pro users. Premium cost is not justified for many use cases

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:48

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

I've built Power BI Solutions, published them online, installed gateways, shared the reports, ensured the data refreshes automatically and formatted them to be viewable both on a Mobile and a Desktop.

All of this work is for absolutely nothing when you have end users that want to receive a PDF which is automatically sent to them. Some users just don't want to use the software dynamically and want to be spoon fed their information (which is an understandable stance, everyone works differently). It's ridiculous that this feature is missing as it's now forcing us to purchase a third party software subscription to accomplish this. We have around 30 users that require certain reports - the premium price tag just isn't going to be considered.

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WoahYourHorses on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:30

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

As an SME, we're horrified to discover after we've migrated from SBS2008 ecosystem to O365, SPO and PBI Pro, that paginated reports aren't available without paying $5k a month for Premium license. These reports are crucial to our small business and we have 10 years worth of RDL already written, which now can't be published on SPO, and can't be recreated in PBI Pro as they're not supported. This really should be a basic offering and we're having to install Report Builder on every client that needs to run these paginated reports, which is a crude and inefficient workaround that flies in the face of the elegance of what Power BI is meant to be offering.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:30

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium


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