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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 04:15:35

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Hi Chris Finlan,

Any update by when ability to print/export the entire table of data to PDF or other format will be available. Thnx

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Niranjan on 16 Aug 2020 04:15:10

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Thanks for the Update We would love to see exporting PDFs/Excel/PPT via Power BI subscriptions

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:54

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Thanks for the update. We would love to see exporting PDFs via Power BI subscriptions instead of just png files.

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:45

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Do we have scheduled export of report to PDF for PRO users, Also the Entire table will be printed? This is long wait from last 2 years hope this is going to available soon

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Benjamin Swift on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:45

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Just two add my two cents, this could be huge for us, although I can see there are numerous issues with the implementation, e.g., how it works w/ RLS and Security Groups, whether specific Bookmarked versions of reports can be set up for PDF/email distribution, etc. I think the tables/scrolling issue is a red herring: I would expect we'd have to set up reports so all relevant data appear on the canvass without scrolling - a PDF obviously cannot display records which are not visible on the canvass.

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S K on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:44

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Can we send e-mails with PDF documents to e-mail accounts that are not subscribed to the service? Licensing is tricky for many customers.

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:43

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Realy that will simplify our life on the monitoring using power BI

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Amal on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:42

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What the heck do we do with a PDF? Maybe you guys didn't get it, we need the data from the reports for further analysis, not for show.

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Santosh on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:42

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This does not load filters properly and shows "X" for filters

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:42

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Please include the ability to export as an Excel file or CSV.