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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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sadf sdf on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:10

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Steve asked me to comment on the fact this work is being done on the service not the desktop...moving it back to under review

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:08

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Can this be scheduled to run and save a report as a picture file? I want to run based on given slicers (setup rules in adv for the scheduling) - eg I have a report that multiple cost centre managers use and I wish to auto save based on relevant month filter and also filtered for each user access rights permissioning. If I can save these as à app picture fikes, I can them embes back into management reporting easily etx. I'd be very grateful for any help/advide.

Thanks
Paul

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PolyVista on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:08

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Please add interactivity in PDF, we have developed an app that makes a PDF interactive. you can see demo video on the following link.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdo1GWVtvF7W0InM6a4nrjNdrLPM_HPXoYWVw0I2zEKWWuAfw/viewform

http://www.polyvista.com/Home/Demo

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:06

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When publishing to a PDF, text in a text box goes from left alignment, to center alignment. I think it should stay the same.

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Marina on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:06

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Please add this feature in Desktop.

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Enrico A. Discacciati on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:02

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I would love to be able to schedule reoccurring emails monthly/weekly/daily of our reports/dashboards to anyone we need to.

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:01

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This is a major issue for issuing reports. MUST! be able to PDF. Many contracts my company is part of contain very sensitive information. It is totally unacceptable to send a file that contains this information. A pdf is our normal avenue of distribution and Power BI does not have this capability

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:54:59

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

The reports are great except our sales people and management ask if they can send the report to a customer. The sent report should be a static view that cannot be manipulated and being able to choose the filters and sorting, then export the report to a pdf with all of the formatting is essential for adoption

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Ricardo on 16 Aug 2020 03:54:58

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Any ETA on this?

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Cris on 16 Aug 2020 03:54:57

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Estimados, soy publicadora web y necesito manejar continuamente archivos pdf.
No puedo subirlos a la red porque las bases contienen información confidencial.
Que opciones tenemos? Permite exportar a Excel? O a Doc?
Gracias.