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Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

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on 03 May 2018 19:09:05

The lay-out of printed dashboards and report pages is lost when you print the page. Proper printing functionality is still missing (may 2018). In my humble opinion this should be a priority.

Administrator on 03 Aug 2023 16:24:02

Paginated reports are designed for use cases intended for print. Consider using a paginated report when you need to print.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:06

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

Printing and exporting static reports is one area where Tableau is vastly superior to Power BI. In fact, its enough of a benefit to switch back to that product.

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Yen Tee on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:23

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

its simple...printing means all items in the report (even records that go across multiple pages) are rendered appropriately to be printed out.

if you can do it in SSRS, why is this so hard?

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Matt Morris on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:20

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

The need to print all rows in a matrix is critical. At the moment, the print functionality is only a print screen function.

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Vinny on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:46

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

Printing all rows of a Gantt chart visualisation is key for me. In IE 11 the 'Print AS Picture' option is the closest thing I can muster to something that prints all rows... but its not great. The background is black in the resulting image (even though it is white in the report) and the font changes also.

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Paul Schaffer on 05 Jul 2020 23:02:32

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

For proper business use we need a working and customizeable print-function. Without that it's useless for meetings. Please take care of this asap.

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Jorge Kang on 05 Jul 2020 22:54:40

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

We really do need the functionality where it allows us to print the entire contents of the matrix table.

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Kees Kuip on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:04

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

I abandoned power bi and am using excel with powerquery now because printing is not available .

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I Wish MS Cared on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:44

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

A year ago someone said they were looking into why this idea was marked completed... lol no update since then. This is crazy. If we can't print accurately, we're going to be stuck with Tableau.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:05

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

Having a printing option with preview and formatting support is needed for a table Can you please improvise the current print option in PowerBI????

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:05

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

As mentioned on previous comments, it's also a crucial requirement for us the option to print all rows/cols for a Matrix or Table visualisation (i.e. including "unscrolled" rows/cols)

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