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Export to Excel through a subscription

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on 27 Oct 2017 20:57:55

Our customers want the option to receive an export to Excel of reports delivered to them via subscription.

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Josh Hoffman on 27 Mar 2023 22:32:22

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I should not have to create a seperate paginated report for my users just so they can have an excel output sent to them. This is double the work for me as a report writer and harder to maintain to ensure all my data sources have been updated if there is a change.

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on 23 Mar 2023 21:48:10

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At this point Microsoft should just call the "Subscribe" functionality a "Reminder" functionality, because that's effectively all it delivers. The UX design for this use case is baffling. Currently users are required to click the link in the email to their report, hover over the table they want to export, click on the tiniest ellipses I have ever seen, click 'Export Data', choose the export type, and then finally click 'Export'. Our company's version of Crystal Reports written in the early 2000s is able to handle this seemingly basic functionality. What gives, Microsoft?

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on 23 Mar 2023 21:48:10

RE: Export to Excel through a subscription

Hi Team,Please add the excel attachment option while configuring the Power BI subscription. Currently we have only PDF and Power Point option. Re: How to send Excel format attachment through su... - Microsoft Power BI CommunityThanks,Rahul

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on 23 Mar 2023 21:47:55

RE: Export to Excel through a subscription

Currently PBI do not support the capability to include an excel report export as an attachment when sending emails as part of subscriptions. This is a critical feature that our report consumers currently have with other BI tools. It will be great if PBI can include excel export option for reports/dashboards when we schedule emails to report consumers after publishing a report/dashboard in PBI service which will allow them to include excel attachment of the report in the email.

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Remya

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on 23 Mar 2023 21:47:54

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Currently, you can send only png or pdf, there is a need to send an excel file with several objects (tables) concatenated and designed.

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on 23 Mar 2023 21:47:54

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Currently email subscription allows to view report as full attachment only in PDF or PPTMy request is to also have an excel option

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on 23 Mar 2023 21:47:54

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In Email subscription To subscribe more than one page in a report we have full report as an attachment , where the attachment is delivered only either PDF or PowerPoint, it would be more convenient if we can add excel format ,so that we can export data in excel.

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Kate Schwid on 21 Mar 2023 16:15:37

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This is reporting 101, excel is needed. I don't know anyone that uses PDF by choice when receiving a report. Agree with someone else that mentioned SSRS can do it, Power BI shouldn't have an issue.

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Thomas Cybucki on 14 Sep 2022 18:34:01

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Voted.How is it possible that this isn't a default file format?

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Gregory Smith on 01 Oct 2021 11:39:19

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This cannot come soon enough. Not sure how this isn't possible already

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