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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 03:57:19

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

In power bi there should be option to download dashboard to PDF in online version like Tableau. Although i can take screen shot but quality is not good. It would be more better in power bi desktop that if user can export there dashboard or charts into adobe illustrator or vectored image

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Robin Parkinson on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:18

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Please, please add this. NAV connectivity to web service is troublesome at best and as
such export from desktop would be really great.

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:17

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not just from power bi desktop but also from powerbi.com

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Göran Lindqvist on 16 Aug 2020 03:57:01

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Please, please, please... Do this.

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Tamás Vidó on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:45

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Agreed, the printing experience is so poor that it is a deal breaker for my business stream. They love the reports in PBI, and they want to print them out. But this is really not working well. The save as PPT is good, but that doesn't work when embedded, and with custom visuals it doesn't work at all. So there is plenty of room for improvement here.

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Jason on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:39

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Printing from the desktop app would be a huge benefit. It would also be good to be able to use it in an enterprise context without the heavy enterprise guts, for users who are tied into other solution and system architectures.

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Jason on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:38

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Another thought; Excel is fantastic at making nice looking charts, hopefully PBI can leverage some of this strength.

The charts printed from the web interface look alright, but the pdfs suffer a bit.

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Ahmed Shahra on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:37

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To save the dashboard or any report designed by POWER BI to use it in most of forms, I hope to add the service of exporting a copy of work as image or PDF,

Thanks,

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Carlos on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:37

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Imprescindible para cualquier herramienta.

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Daniel (Australia) on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:36

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Pleaseee.... so many people that do Financials require this feature.