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Let us extend Power BI through custom macros, workflows and automations

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Scott on 25 May 2016 20:26:31

Hi. I am loving the growth and development of Power BI! I work with clients in medium and large enterprise. One of the needs I've identified is to be able to extend the functionality of a report or dashboard using custom workflows, macros, and automation.

A couple examples:
- The Sales Director is on a report and wants to share the details of a specific visualization with someone by email. She clicks a button on the report that grabs a screen capture and creates an email with the screen grab pasted in.

- An analyst is on a multi page report. He uses a combination of slicers and visuals to filter a large and complex data set to just what he wants to see. He then selects for the filters to be used across the report, and when he switches to other pages, the same filter is in place.

- A Product Manager wants to be notified when his Power BI dashboard shows the number of widgets in sales opportunities (coming from a CRM system) to be 80% of available stock (coming from an ERP system). He has a visualization that shows this, and would like a notification by email whenever the data is updated and this criteria is met.

The general idea is that it would be great if we could have access to a workflow/macro type of interface to allow user defined functionality within Power BI. This is equivalent to what Excel offers with Macros and VBA and what Dynamics CRM offers with Workflows and Actions.

Thanks!
Scott

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Niloufar Mohaseb on 07 Oct 2022 20:28:33

RE: Let us extend Power BI through custom macros, workflows and automations

adding Macro Capability like excel is absolutely needed on PBI

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:02

RE: Let us extend Power BI through custom macros, workflows and automations

'alerts's are nice, but I prefer the whole VBA capability.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:25:39

RE: Let us extend Power BI through custom macros, workflows and automations

This is a great Idea...Macros in Power BI to control different would be fantastic...Please work on improving this feature..It would take power BI on a whole new level.