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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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Victor on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:41

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Would be really useful to export the data on an hourly basis for Managers to track changes in real time.

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:37

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How is this still under review?

I just had to convert our full office from Power BI back to Tableau.

Well done on losing 60 licenses.

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:37

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**Sorry the survey no longer exists**

Why put up a survey then take it down ?... and then not update your comments? This is quite infuriating.

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Jamali on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:36

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I am amazed that this feature is not present from Day 1

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:32

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This is a serious add-on that needs to be included.

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Phil on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:29

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It is obvious Microsoft is trying to get people to the Cloud, but for reasons of data security, for some applications that WILL NOT HAPPEN. The ability to print from BI Desktop is "must have"!

Microsoft is "shooting itself in the foot" again...
...with Apple IOS finally adding access to the file-system in IOS 11, Microsoft's retail user position will be further eroded already. I hope Microsoft is making a conscious decision to abandon the retail user, and market only to the commercial sector, and this is not simply a case of foolishness.

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Mark on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:29

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What can't print from the desktop version of Power BI. Oh well, back to excel then!!!

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:28

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Any Updates on this? Last touched in October of 2017... Lots of implementations for this.

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:28

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How can this be outstanding for more than a year? I just had a customer decline the use of Power BI because it can't print a multi page visualization this is just a huge miss. Clients need to print reports to quote John Oliver "How can this be a thing"

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Ed M on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:21

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Including a company logo in the pdf is mandatory company branding policy.