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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/

Comments (587)

Comments (587)

Stephanie on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:29

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Yes this is definitely needed. A prospect just brought it up to me last week that in order to be interested in it they need a nice-looking PDF version they can print to give out at meetings.

Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:28

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Printing from the service looks terrible and we cannot deliver reports to our client in this way. At this time the cleanest way to provide a pdf is by making a pdf out of a screenshot. We lose detail there as well, though at least we don't have the issue of things overlapping or not showing up the same way they do in the report. I cannot stress enough how important it is for us to be able to provide a professional clean pdf version of our reports. Some of our clients are not willing to take the time to sign up for the power bi service or are generally reluctant to move forward with technology.

DaveO on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:27

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Printing (to PDF or the printer) from the Service is not a very good solution, even for those who can publish to the web. Printing from the browser uses the browser print function and the output rarely looks like it does on the screen. All our reports look absolutely terrible when printed.

bertim182 on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:10

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Really want this one!

Mauro Alizoni on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:10

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Any news on this very important feature ? This will empower really a lot the tool

Ron Ridgway on 16 Aug 2020 03:56:10

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Yes, I need the ability to schedule and export specific field data based on a report/visual structure (selected slicer criteria). This would create the ability to collect and trend the results of dynamic data that has frequent updates or refresh cycles (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.). If it could append those results to a specified format .csv or Excel or .txt file, BI could then be used to schedule import, query and expose that data to users.